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By REV. R. S. CLARK 



OF THE MONTANA CONFERENCE 



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THE EUROPEAN WAR 



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ITS CROWNING RESULT 



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PREFACE. 

When I was a barefooted boy walking alone 
through an almost unbroken forest, a problem came 
suddenly into my mind and has remained to the pres- 
ent time and has become the nucleus about which my 
theology has clustered, and which is this: Why are 
you in conflict with yourself, your spirit and your 
flesh at war with each other? To begin with, I was 
fully conscious that I was not a moral unit, and I was 
equally certain that it was not the result of my crea- 
tion by a God that was not in conflict with himself. 
These assurances were followed as an inevitable with 
the impression that the conflict in me was the result 
of Adam's fall. Then I concluded that if I could find 
what Adam was on trial for I would also find what 
effect his failure had on his moral economy. Reach- 
ing this point, my next chance to find the truth that I 
was seeking was in analyzing the garden or test law 
by the use of the sentence that God passed upon Adam 
in its vindication, knowing that it was the true con- 
struction of that law, and which I found to be physical 
death as the direct effect and the moral imprisonment 
of the intellect and spirit, or "inward man," which is 
Isaiah's "lawful captives" — captives in the disabled 
physical or "outward man" of the devil — ^but not oth- 
erwise disabled, having a "will to do" and a faculty 
to believe, which left man savable. This made man as 
an inevitable dual, morally, having an "outward man" 



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that was totally disabled and an "inward man" morally 
imprisoned therein. 

I now saw the source of my moral conflict with my- 
self. This discovery revealed the truth that Adam 
was on trial in the physical or "outward man" faculty 
of his moral being, and after search disclosed the 
all-important truth that he was on trial as the king 
of the world in its sense and social life in conjunc- 
tion with God the Holy Trinity's sovereign reign in 
its spiritual life. Here I saw that Adam's dethrone- 
ment at the devil's instance could but have disestab- 
lished God's government on earth by separating its 
human and divine departments and enthroning the 
devil-god over Adam and his world. Having obeyed 
him instead of God, he became his servant, of course. 
Now I saw the philosophy of Christ's birth from the 
virgin womb of dethroned humanity — that is, that 
Christ thereby became the Birthright Prince and, 
therefore, the Redemptive Heir of Adam's throne of 
the world. This revealed the great truth that Christ's 
mission to the world was that of delivering man from 
under the garden law and the recovery of his throne 
and thereby to establish God's government on earth be- 
yond Adam's grave of his dethronement in his world 
thereby redeemed "for an everlasting possession." 

Now we may see why Christ is coming back to the 
world — that is, to establish his Adamic kingdom and 
thereby reestablish God's government on earth in its 
original order. And we can also see that the govern- 
ments of the world, which are but Adam's government 



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continued under the delusion of *'the mystery of in- 
iquity," must be removed. 

The author has written this preface not only to 
strengthen his position but also that he may be better 
understood. 



THE EUROPEAN WAR AND ITS 
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The object of this pamphlet is to call the attention 
of the world to the great redemptive truth that Christ 
is to come back to establish his kingdom of it, and 
something of the nature of his coming, and of the 
nature of his personal kingdom, and the nature of 
God's original kingdom on earth thereby recovered 
and reestablished as a redemptive fact in Christ's 
millennial reign, and for which atonement provision 
was made before his ascension, and which was left 
under the personal reign of God, the Holy Ghost, the 
Divine Executor, to complete its work by man's co- 
operation upon the practical arena of the world's life, 
where all are saved in recovered citizenship that are 
finally saved, and where all are lost in forfeited citi- 
zenship that are finally lost; none being either saved 
finally in the cradle or lost finally in the grave, except, 
however, that those that die in the cradle are finally 
saved, of course. And we should observe that the 
end of the atonement's work of final salvation is not 
determined by the number saved or lost, but instead it 
is determined by the character of man's cooperation 
with it. Man may in his cooperation with it be "beau- 
tiful for men to behold," when he is as a "whited sep- 
ulcher, full of corruption," and therefore ready for 
eternal exile, as were the Jews for their time exile. 

Viewing the war in Christianized Europe as dispas- 



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sionately and as optimistically as intelligent conserva- 
tism will permit, the conclusion asserts itself that "the 
Gentiles" are fast reaching- their ''fullness" in for- 
mality under the new covenant gospel dispensation, 
as did the Jews under the old gospel dispensation. 
For there is no place on earth that discloses the need 
of atonement salvation more than does this war dis- 
close it in Europe; for they are making it their busi- 
ness night and day, Sunday and Monday, to kill one 
another, while the nations engaged in this wholesale 
murder are praying to God for success, when the war 
is the direct result of "the mystery of iniquity," taking 
Christ out of his atonement plan of preventing it. 
How deceived ! "My people are destroyed for lack of 
knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I 
will also reject thee." (Hos. iv. 6.) 

From this viewpoint it is but reasonable to conclude 
that this European war, which is the greatest war with 
which "this present evil world" has ever been cursed, 
and which is being waged upon the field where the 
last universal government was conquested by de- 
throned man through hundreds of years, which was a 
gigantic effort — though it may not have been so de- 
signed, for this is "the mystery of iniquity" — to re- 
cover Adam's throne of the world in its sense and 
social life, where he was dethroned in conjunct^'on 
with God's sovereign reign in its spiritual life, has not 
escaped prophetic vision, especially so when the ori- 
gin and nature and the time of the reign of this gov- 
ernment were prophesied, and also when it had been 
prophesied that it would be disorganized under its 
"seventh head" or form of government, and after a 



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time not specified it would be reorganized under its 
"eighth head" by a mighty conqueror, and that it 
would be of its seventh head or would partake of its 
nature; and after a brief and very disastrous reign 
it would "go into perdition" — or, in other words, and 
what to the world is of great moment, that it would 
be destroyed by a fifth government that "shall fill 
the world and never shall be destroyed." For this, 
of course, is Adam's throne of the world recovered 
under God's government on earth in its original or- 
der by Christ, its Birthright Prince, and therefore it is 
his right, both by birth and by atonement provision 
to reign in its sense and social department in Adam's 
stead in conjunction with God the Father and God 
the Holy Ghost — it being now under the personal reign 
of the latter — in its spiritual department, Christ there- 
by becoming the "second Adam" or Redeemer King 
of Adam's world, thus redeemed finally beyond the 
grave of his dethronement, it requiring Christ's res- 
urrection thereout to accomplish it. "But when he 
saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that 
he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 
And when all things shall be subdued unto him [death 
being Christ's last enemy to his occupancy of Adam's 
throne of the world as a redemptive fact, as this 
event, of necessity, can occur only beyond the grave 
of Adam's dethronement in his world thereby re- 
deemed], then shall the Son also himself be subject 
[just as Adam was, whose throne Christ has thereby 
recovered under the original order of God's govern- 
ment on earth] unto him that did put all things under 
him, that God may be all in all." (i Cor. xv. 27, 28.) 



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That is, that God may be the reigning spiritual Sover- 
eign of the world, thus recovered under his original 
provincial government of it, Christ having become its 
"One Lord" in its human department in Adam's stead. 
And where is the mystery about this literal and 
complete redemption of Adam's dethroned house ac- 
complished in this businesslike manner by Christ, its 
Birthright Prince? With this relation to it, could it 
have been otherwise accomplished? Reason's answer 
to this question is that under the all-pervading law of 
relation in kind it was utterly impossible; that all, of 
necessity, that was lost under its inexorable reign by 
Adam's dethronement must have been redeemed by 
Christ's enthronement. Here we may unmistakably 
see that God's original kingdom of the world was dual, 
having a human and a divine department, man reign- 
ing king in one and God, the Holy Trinity, reigning 
supreme in the other. We may see with equal cer- 
tainty that Christ has made atonement provision to 
recover and reestablish this kingdom on earth in its 
original order by his enthronement in its human or 
social department, which reunites it with the divine 
or spiritual department and which was separated by 
Adam's dethronement. When Pilate said to Christ, 
when he was under the shadow of the cross, "Art thou 
a king, then?" his reply was: "Thou sayest that ^ am 
a king. To this end was I born [in Adam's dethroned 
house, of course], and for this cause came I into the 
world to bear witness to the [this] truth" — that is, that 
Pilate had declared and for which Christ said that he 
was born — Christ here taught clearly, if he taught 
anything, that his birth mission to this world was 



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that of recovering Adam's throne of the world under 
God's government on earth, itself thereby recovered 
in its original order. And could God, the Father, have 
given Christ, his Son, to save the world in any other 
way? If so, I have utterly failed to discover it. And I 
can no more conceive of two plans of saving dethroned 
humanity than I can conceive of a plurality of plans 
for its creation. So much at present for Christ's 
Church or Adam's kingdom and God's reestablished 
reign in its spiritual life. 

Now let us consult Daniel's prophecy in his disclo- 
sure and interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream and 
see what he teaches of Christ's coming and of the social 
conditions of the world, especially of Europe, and 
what will become of the world's governments at 
that time : "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great 
image. This great image, whose brightness was ex- 
cellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was 
terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his 
breast and his arms of silver, ... his legs of iron, 
his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest 
till that a stone was cut out without hands [was not 
in hands], which smote the image upon his feet that 
were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then 
was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, 
broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff 
of the summer threshingfloors ; and the wind carried 
them away, that no place was found for them : and the 
stone that smote the image became a great mountain, 
and filled the whole earth. This is the dream; and 
we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. 
Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of 



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heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and 
strength, and glory [that is, as the result of his con- 
quest, just as he will give to the wicked the labor of 
their hands in the final judgment]. . . . Thou art 
this head of gold [Babylonian government]. And after 
thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee 
[Medo-Persian], and another third kingdom of brass 
[Grecian], which shall bear rule over all the earth. 
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron [Im- 
perial Rome] : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces 
and subdueth all things : and as iron that breaketh all 
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise [in its con- 
quests]. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, 
part of potters' clay, and part of iron [no clay, we 
should observe, in organized Imperial Rome, as it rep- 
resents the diplomatic alliances and also the blood ties 
between the royal houses of the European powers in 
Imperial Rome's disorganization therein, which are 
devices to keep the iron, or the Roman conquesting 
instincts, from coming into violent contact with each 
other], the kingdom [Imperial Rome] shall be divid- 
ed; but there shall be in it the strength of iron [con- 
questing prowess], forasmuch as thou sawest the iron 
mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet 
were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom 
shall be partly strong, and partly broken [or brittle]. 
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, 
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men 
[that is, the royal houses of the European powers 
would intermarry to establish blood ties between them, 
together with diplomatic alliances to prevent them 
from invading each other's boundaries] : but they shall 



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not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed 
with clay." (Dan. ii. 31-43.) 

The diplomatic alliances between the European 
powers and the blood ties that unite their royal houses 
have not proved, as Daniel foresaw, equal to the con- 
questing proclivity that they have inherited from Im- 
perial Rome, like begetting like. We should observe 
that Imperial Rome inherited this proclivity from 
King Adam, who, under the deception of the serpent, 
went out of his created relation to his world-domain 
by the transgression of the law in which it was con- 
served in an effort to conquest the wisdom of the 
gods, that he might thereby be the monarch of the 
world instead of its vassal king ; and therefore he never 
did acknowledge his dethronement, nor did he cease 
his search for the wisdom of the gods, nor have his 
children ceased their search for it until now, and they 
never were more completely the subjects of this de- 
lusion than they are to-day. Here we have not only 
the inexhaustible source of conquesting Imperialism; 
but we also have associated with it in its origin and 
in vital and persistent action that most subtle of all 
delusions — that is, "the mystery of iniquity" that is 
deluging Europe in blood to-day, in the nineteenth 
century of Christ's reign in his gospel provision to 
prevent it by his enthronement in Adam's stead and 
in his created relation to his world-domain, out of 
which we went in quest of the wisdom of the gods, 
and which was the origin of all of the depraved pro- 
clivities and evils to which his family is heir. 

Here we have the origin of sin in Adam's moral 
economy and not in his environments, to which it was 



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transmitted as an inevitable by the great law of adap- 
tation. Here, therefore, we must begin our search for 
man's redemptive needs and the nature of the atone- 
ment provision for them. Beginning here, we find 
by God's Word in logical research that Adam's de- 
thronement was effected by the devil through and in 
the physical or king faculty of his moral being, it hav- 
ing been ''formed of the dust of the ground" to relate 
him in kind to the world for his domain, as otherwise 
he could not have been its king-inheritor. And as he 
was thereby disabled in this faculty as an inevitable, 
and so held under the garden law in the sentence of 
physical death that arrested his citizenship in his (so- 
cial) department of God's government on earth to 
secure his execution, as a citizen cannot be executed 
by law; and as Adam did not die under this sentence 
in twenty-four days, which was doubtless the impres- 
sion that the serpent, or rather, that the devil in his 
serpent disguise, had, to make his deception effectual, 
made upon his mind, therefore he embraced as true 
what the devil had told Eve would be the direct result 
of the transgression of the garden or test law — that 
is, that it would make them as wise as the gods — the 
first Higher Critic of God's Word — hence Adam's con- 
clusion that he could, being as wise as the gods, oc- 
cupy the throne of the world as its monarch, while 
Eve, his queen, could reign in its home life, independ- 
ent of the gods ; and, transmitting this conviction and 
its purpose in a dethroned proclivity to their children, 
they have through the ages of dethroned humanity 
been seeking Adam's throne of the world under the 
devil's abnormal reign as its god, whose enthrone- 



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ment was the inevitable result of Adam's dethrone- 
ment, at his instance, in the sense and social life of 
the world in conjunction with God's sovereign reign 
in its spiritual life, and which, of course, disestablished 
God's government on earth in the separation of its 
human and divine departments. 

This great war in Europe to-day is but this pro- 
clivity struggling in blood and carnage for supremacy 
in Europe, if not in the world, under the devil, of 
course; for Christ, the Birthright Prince of Adam's 
dethroned house, whose right is to reign "Lord of 
lords and King of kings" under the supreme reign of 
God in its spiritual life, has been taken "out of the 
way," or ostracized, by this "work of the mystery of 
iniquity." "And why should not the world fondly in- 
dulge the hope that Christ will return and put an end 
to its devastating work by removing the kingdoms of 
the world that are established under its reign in his 
own enthronement under God's original government 
thereby recovered from under the devil's abnormal 
reign and reestablish it in the reunion of its human and 
divine departments, when God's will "will be done on 
earth as it is done in heaven" ? And especially so when 
salvation from these dethroned, abnormal conditions of 
its life can come to it finally in no other way, so de- 
clared in God's Word, and which is fully established in 
the philosophy of the atonement, and which reason 
clearly discovers. Is it not seen that the scientific and 
literary attainments of Europe and their moral refor- 
mation or religious attainments, instead of preventing 
this great war that is drenching its soil with human 
gore, have contributed to its intensity and to its dev- 



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astation and unprecedented ruin? When was it ever 
known that cause, small or great, removed its effects 
or changed their legitimate nature in improved repe- 
tition? Yet this is what "the mystery of iniquity" has 
undertaken to accomplish in our world that it suc- 
ceeded in dethroning, or rather what it has promised 
man, its dethroned subject, that it will accomplish for 
him at some time and place, wholly unknown, of 
course. 

Does the world see Christ in this European war, or 
does it see him taken out of his atonement plan by "the 
mystery of iniquity" to prevent it ? There is one thing 
certain, and that is that the world cannot, in the light 
of God's Word and reason, see Christ in the former 
relation to the European war. Then it follows as an 
inevitable that it must see him, if it sees him at all, in 
the latter relation to this war ; and, seeing him in this 
attitude to it and to the world as its Saviour, why not 
expect him to come and remove its iniquitous govern- 
ments and establish his kingdom that will fill the 
whole world under his munificent reign, when "right- 
eousness will dwell in the earth"? 

It was because of this dethroned delusion of Adam 
that it became necessary for God, in order to recover 
his government on earth, forcefully to eject Adam 
from his garden home capital of the world and send 
"him out to till the soil." And it also became neces- 
sary to put an angel there "with a flaming sword that 
turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life" 
to prevent him from returning and eating of its fruit 
and thereby becoming confirmed on his throne in his 
dethroned state under the devil's abnormal reign for- 



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ever. With this divine disclosure of the origin and 
nature of this delusion in dethroned man, should the 
world be astonished that his children, with a procliv- 
ity born of this delusion, should persist in conquesting 
his throne by even taking Christ, the Birthright Prince, 
out of its way? Nor should there be astonishment 
that Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, should have 
taught that "the [this] mystery of iniquity" was at 
''work" in his day, and that Christ also was at work 
in his atonement plan to prevent its success — that is, 
by recovering citizens out of Adam's dethroned world 
into his Adamic kingdom, thereby recovering Adam's 
throne under God's government finally on earth be- 
yond the grave of Adam's dethronement in his world 
thus redeemed. Neither should the world be at all 
astonished that Paul should have taught that "the 
[this] mystery of iniquity" would finally take Christ 
out of his new covenant or gospel probation to recover 
Adam's throne, since all depends upon man's coop- 
eration — who is the subject of this "mystery of iniquity" 
— with Christ in this atonement provision for its ac- 
complishment; for it must, of necessity, be effected 
upon the practical arena of man's dethroned life, where 
he makes his character or fixes his destiny under 
Christ's reign in his atonement provision to save him in 
redeemed character. All men will not be finally saved 
(though they are unconditionally redeemed in the Cra- 
dle), not, however, because Christ's atonement plan 
therefor is inefficient, but instead because they will 
not cooperate with him in this plan in going from the 
cradle to the grave of Adam's dethronement, where 
character for weal or woe must be made by dethroned 
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man, and who is held, as we have seen, under redemp- 
tive necessity, totally disabled in arrested citizenship, 
in the physical or practical faculty of his moral being, 
under the sentence of physical death, to secure his 
execution as a citizen cannot be executed by law, 
therefore his only chance for recovered citizenship in 
the social or physical department of God's recovered 
government on earth is in his resurrection and justifi- 
cation from under this executed penalty of the garden 
law and which depends upon his character. 

And then add to all of this the great revolting fact 
that "the [this] mystery of iniquity" had so taken 
Christ out of the promise, "The seed of the woman 
shall bruise the serpent's head," by counteracting in 
his own enthronement in Adam's stead, his head device 
by which he dethroned Adam and thereby disestab- 
lished God's government on earth, and thus reestab- 
lished it in man's recovery therein, that it became a re- 
demptive necessity that God should bring a flood of 
water upon the earth to remove all of Adam's family, 
except one of eight members ("left us a seed") with 
whom to perpetuate this covenant, as there were no 
others that were capable of cooperating with him in 
effecting this great redemptive result. (When will de- 
throned man understand that God's power to save him 
from his personal sins is determined by his own faith 
in Christ, together with his own will in cooperating 
with God in Christ's atonement provision for its accom- 
plishment?) And has not Christ called the attention of 
the world to this great event in its life, and also to the 
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, to disclose to it 
the awful truth that when he comes he will have been 



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taken out of the atonement means under the gospel 
to save it from its sins, thereby making it necessary, 
in order to establish his Adamic kingdom on earth, 
to remove all of its governments that have been estab- 
lished under ''the mystery of iniquity" despite his 
effort to prevent it ? Nothing but the working of "the 
mystery of iniquity" keeps the world from seeing this 
its end under the atonement to save it from its sins, 
with its faith and will cooperation with Christ to 
effect it. And it will be readily seen that when Christ 
is taken out of the gospel way of recovering Adam's 
throne of the world, and which he will be — that is, by 
the enthronement of ''the man of sin, the son of perdi- 
tion, that Wicked" — upon the throne of reorganized 
Imperial Rome, he will quickly "set up" God's king- 
dom, or original government, on earth in his millen- 
nial reign, which necessitates the speedy removal of 
all of earth's governments to prepare for its occupancy 
of "the whole world," just as it was necessary to re- 
move the antediluvian world to prepare the postdilu- 
vian world for Christ's potential Adamic kingdom in 
the promise, "The seed of the woman shall bruise the 
serpent's head," until it was established in atonement 
provision, and until Christ was taken out of its pro- 
visions to enthrone himself in Adam's stead, and 
which will be done when Imperial Rome is reorgan- 
ized by conquest under the reign of a universal mon- 
arch. It was "the mystery of iniquity" that crucified 
Christ — that is, because he would not raise up David's 
throne and sit thereon this side of his grave of de- 
thronement. And this is what the great peace move- 
ment of to-day is seeking in effect to accomplish, al- 



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though its design is quite otherwise. Any effort to 
enthrone Christ in the social life of the world, except 
through God's sovereign reign in its spiritual life, is 
the work of "the mystery of iniquity." And it is not 
difficult to see that very much is being done to-day 
along this line of Christian endeavor. It was this 
effort, with much success, that sent Abraham's cove- 
nant house into exile from Palestine their redemptive 
earnest of Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave 
of his dethronement. And that also took away from 
it Christ's Adamic kingdom, which he gave to the 
Gentiles to bring forth its spiritual fruit in its season, 
or while they cooperated with Christ in their practical 
lives under the sovereign reign of God in their spirit- 
ual lives, thus making Christ the Saviour of the world, 
and not by enthroning Christ in its social life without 
the sovereign reign of God in its spiritual life, which 
dethroned man is prone to do. 

On the other hand, it is curious to observe that 
when Christ's enemies think they have taken him out 
of the way, they have simply put him in relation 
where he could alone have accomplished his atonement 
mission. Under this character of "the mystery of in- 
iquity," the Jews little thought when they put Christ on 
the cross that they were thereby putting him in rela- 
tion where he could alone "raise up David's throne 
and sit thereon forever." And Pilate wrote wiser 
than he knew when he wrote above Christ on the 
cross, "This Is Christ, the King of the Jews"; for he 
evidently believed, and so did the Jews, that they 
were taking Christ out of the way of being the King 
of Abraham's covenant house, when they were put- 



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ting him in atonement relation to provide for his be- 
coming their King beyond the grave of Adam's de- 
thronement, and not this side of it, as they persistently 
contended, even Peter, until after Christ's resurrection 
out of Adam's grave of dethronement, when he saw 
*'a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness," or the pristine fitness of the world's 
life as the result of the final establishment of Christ's 
Adamic kingdom. And when "the mystery of iniquity" 
finally succeeds — which it will do — in taking Christ 
out of the gospel way or method of recovering Adam's 
throne of the world under God's original government 
of it, it will place him in atonement relations to as- 
cend at once Adam's throne in his millennial reign 
of the world, where the devil, the author of "the mys- 
tery of iniquity," will be "chained and shut up in the 
bottomless pit," that he go not out to deceive the na- 
tions, by its use, "till the thousand years be fulfilled." 
No wonder, then, that the prophetic ken of Daniel 
should have discovered down through the coming ages 
that the clay policy would not prevent the European 
powers fromi unwittingly resolving themselves in an 
effort of conquest into Imperial Rome under its 
"eighth head" or politico-ecclesiastical form of gov- 
ernment; for this proclivity that has controlled these 
powers also contends for Adam's religious throne, or 
rather, relation to the world's government, and of 
which Cain is the notorious representative, and who 
has been presented to the world to save it from this 
dethroned contention for these interests. While ec- 
clesiastical Rome is a very significant and monstrous 
expression of this dethroned delusion. It is this con- 



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tention that makes ''the mystery of iniquity" the reli- 
gious antasronist of Christ, for it is Christ's enthrone- 
ment in these interests in Adam's stead in their nor- 
mal state that "the mystery of iniquity" is working to 
prevent. Cain in slaying his brother Abel, that rep- 
resented the religious interest in its redeemed relation 
to the State, sought thereby to unite these departments 
of earth's government in his birthright to Adam's 
throne by thus taking Abel out of the way. "And Abel, 
though dead, yet he speaketh" not only to the world 
that Christ has provided to unite these interests in their 
normal relation to each other, but speaks to it also of 
the unscrupulous and persistent effort of this "mystery 
of iniquity" to prevent it by uniting these interests in 
man's enthronement under the devil's abnormal reign 
in the sense and social life of the world. Under God's 
original government the State and religion were in- 
separably connected, Adam reigning king in the social 
life of the world, while God, the Holy Trinity, reigned 
supreme in its spiritual life. It may be readily seen 
that for man to unite these departments of earth's gov- 
ernment in his dethroned state will effectually prevent 
their recovery to their normal relation to each other. 
Man must accept his dethronement in its awful ef- 
fects and accept by faith Christ's enthronement in his 
stead, no\y in atonement provision, and finally as a 
redemptive fact, before God's supreme reign in the 
spiritual department of the world's government is 
possible. Man has not, nor did he ever have, any right 
to reign in the spiritual department of the world's 
government, nor has he any right to reign in its polit- 
ical department in his dethroned state. Therefore 



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when he enters these departments with authority he 
thereby seeks to dethrone God in the one and Christ 
in the other. Even formahty in its highest attain- 
ments is an effort of ''the mystery of iniquity" to ac- 
compHsh these sacrilegious results, and it was never 
more prevalent and plausible than it is to-day. The 
truth is that it has well-nigh taken God out of the 
spiritual life of Christ's Church, or Adamic kingdom, 
and therefore Christ's reign in the social department 
of the world's life is very ineffectual in restraining it 
from crime and saving it from individual sins. Refor- 
mation effected by moral suasion is largely the reli- 
g'ion of to-day, which simply, or rather mysteriously, 
takes Christ out of his atonement provision to restrain 
and save the world from sin in his atonement reign in 
its social life in conjunction with God the Father and 
God the Holy Ghost's sovereign reign in its spiritual 
life. 

All of this is indeed a heart-sickening mystery ; but 
its truth is clearly established in the philosophy of 
Adam's dethronement, and is forcefully corroborated 
in the bloody history of his thereby deluded family, and 
is most pleasingly corroborated by Christ's atonement 
enthronement in Adam's stead and in God's thereby re- 
covered spiritual reign, and is also corroborated by 
the formal and spiritual life that has characterized 
Christ's Church or Adamic kingdom. We should 
observe that the ''eighth head, or form, of government 
of reorganized Imperial Rome" is of the seventh, in 
that its. seventh form of government was imperial, 
with an intrusive ecclesiasticism after Cain's type and 
bloody contention which differentiates them. And it 



24 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

is not difficult to discern the European power which 
can alone furnish Imperial Rome, when it "comes up 
out of the bottomless pit" or out of its headless, dis- 
organized state in the European powers, with its po- 
litico-ecclesiastical government. It is rather a signifi- 
cant fact that this power represents the Slavs as 
against the Teutons. And it is also significant that 
this people have been and are now restless and in- 
triguing under the dominant power of Europe. It is 
contended that this manifest rivalry is the true cause 
of the European war, as has been the case in other 
European wars. One thing is evident, however, and 
that is that there is a pronounced effort by the Euro- 
pean power that represents the Slavs to unite them 
under one flag and under its scepter, which, it is safe 
to say, will be one of the final results of this European 
war. "In the days of these kings [European king- 
doms that are now convulsing Europe with a great 
and very destructive war, such as we should have 
expected and that prophecy teaches, which will bring 
Imperial Rome up out of its disorganized state in the 
European powers, for they shall be merged into Impe- 
rial Rome under its politico-ecclesiastical government, 
as the ten toes of its image indicate, and which is clear- 
ly taught elsewhere] shall the God of heaven set up 
a kingdom [not found or organize a kingdom, but 
set up or establish a kingdom that began to be organ- 
ized in Abraham, a covenant house, by putting the law 
in its social life under the old covenant of work, which, 
as an inevitable, formally enthroned Christ king in 
atonement provision in Abraham's covenant house, 
which was, therefore, "the Church," or Adamic king- 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 25 

dom, that "Christ was in" in Abraham's covenant 
house "in the wilderness," Abraham being its first 
formally recovered citizen as the result of his justi- 
fying faith, which made him "the" redemptive "heir of 
the world," or Adam's world redeemed beyond the 
grave of his dethronement ; while its organization was 
completed in making the new covenant by John the 
Baptist, who represented its human part, and by 
Christ, who represented its divine part, which put the 
law in the heart of Abraham's covenant house, which 
took away the disabling sin of the world, and which, 
as an inevitable, enthroned God in its spiritual life in 
conjunction with Christ in its sense and social life, 
thereby recovering God's government on earth in 
atonement provision in the Cradle in its original order, 
having an innumerable host of ingathered citizens out 
of Adam's dethroned world, and having Christ its 
King in its sense and social department and its Divine 
Sovereign in its spiritual department] which shall 
never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left 
to other people [as was the case with the former uni- 
versal governments; for its redeemed citizens shall 
alone possess it in their recovered world "for an ever- 
lasting possession"], but it shall break in pieces and 
consume all of these kingdoms, and it shall stand for- 
ever [for Abraham and his Christ seed after him 
"for an everlasting possession" and the promise of 
which he died without receiving; but he holds God 
responsible for it, in his grave in the cave of Mach- 
pelah, in Palestine, its redemptive earnest, which he 
bought with his own money]." "God give him none 
inheritance therein, no, not so much as to set his foot 



26 The European War and Its Croivning Result. 

on/' said Stephen in his defense, not even giving him 
a place in it to be buried, although he met his part of 
the contract to the letter, which his grave attests, for 
he reached it by faith in God's promise at the sacrifice 
of his ''country and his father's house and his kin," 
thus losing his life in Adam's dethroned world that he 
might save it in Christ's Adamic "world to come." 
Therefore God has provided by the resurrection of 
Christ out of the grave of Adam's dethronement to 
fulfill his part of this wonderful covenant by bringing 
Abraham, the covenant man, "up out of" his "grave 
into the land of Israel," or into Abraham's promised 
land, where God "will make of him a great nation" 
out of his redeemed, or Christ's, seed, with Christ, its 
"second Adam" or Redeemer King, on Adam's there- 
by recovered throne. Paul therefore says, "They all 
died without receiving the promise [the land and 
great nation promised to Abraham, of course] that 
they without us should not be perfected" or enter into 
its possessions before "us," as it requires the resur- 
rection to accomplish it. For this reason God is hold- 
ing open his part of this far-reaching redemptive cov- 
enant that all who will may become Abraham's seed 
and heirs with him of this promise by losing this 
world as he did in securing it for them in Adam's 
world redeemed beyond the grave of his dethrone- 
ment. It was to this atonement provision that Peter 
alluded when he said, "God is not slack concerning 
his promise [to Abraham of a land and a great na- 
tion] as some men count slackness; but is long-suf- 
fering to usward, not willing that any should per- 
ish [by not securing a lot in Abraham's world], but 



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that all should come to repentance" and thereby en- 
ter into covenant relation with God to sacrifice their 
lives in this dethroned world to save them in Christ's 
Adamic "world to come," as did Abraham, the cov- 
enant man, thus becoming Abraham's seed after him 
and heirs with him of the promise of this coming 
world. "He that loses his life [in this world] will 
save it [in the redeemed] world to come, and he that 
saves his Hfe [in this world] will lose it [in that 
world]." But let us hear Daniel's conclusion: "For- 
asmuch as thou sawest a stone [God's atonement re- 
organized government of the world] was cut out 
of the mountain [God's provincial government by 
Christ's loyalty, under his baptismal vow of obedience, 
thereto in its disestablished state as the result of 
Adam's dethronement by his disloyalty under it] 
without hands [the marginal reading is, "was not in 
hands" — that is, the stone, which is correct ; for God's 
government of the world as a province was not estab- 
lished because of Adam's disloyal dethronement, and 
therefore the world remained in God's provincial gov- 
ernment until Christ, the Birthright Prince of Adam's 
dethroned house, recovered, by his tested loyalty under 
the devil's tempting power, Adam's throne under 
God's provincial government, and therefore God gives 
the world to his Son as a reward for his loyalty], and 
that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the 
silver, and the gold." (Dan. ii. 45.) 

This Christ-recovered kingdom of the world as its 
"second Adam" or Redeemer King, we should ob- 
serve, destroys by violence all of the governments of 
the world in its setting up or millennial establish- 



28 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

ment, as it will "fill the whole world and shall not be 
left to other people" — that is, the governments of the 
world, however much they have been improved by 
their contact with God's atonement kingdom in its 
Church mission, will not pass into it in its millennial 
establishment, but instead will thereby be destroyed; 
nor will their citizens, though their lives be "beautiful 
for men to behold," be permitted to enter it as its re- 
deemed citizens. Then the beliefs that are very prev- 
alent, because they are desirable — at least I can see 
no other reason for their existence — that is, that peo- 
ple can and will be saved out of the Church by refor- 
mation in the use of truth wherever found, and that 
Christ's Church or organized kingdom in its mission 
of redemption will destroy the governments of the 
world by pervading them with its truth as a means 
of its final establishment, when the works of the devil 
are thereby destroyed by Christ, have no support either 
in God's Word or by reason and are therefore fraught 
with much harm, as they are active sources of skepti- 
cism. For if this is the mission of Christ's Church- 
kingdom in the world, it is quite evident that it has 
failed up to the present time and must prove a final 
failure. 

"But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take 
away his dominion [that is, take away the world- 
domain from its politico-ecclesiastical sovereign, ''the 
man of sin, that Wicked"], to consume and destroy it 
unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion [God's 
reestablished kingdom of the world] , and the greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the most High, whose 



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kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions 
shall serve and obey him. Hitherto is the end of the 
matter." (Dan. vii. 26-28.) This millennium *'set-up 
kingdom of the God of heaven in the days of these" 
European "kingdoms," that "shall fill the whole world 
and never will be destroyed," is the "kingdom" that 
Christ has instructed his people to "pray to the Father 
to let it come" — that is, as a redemptive fact in Christ's 
enthronement in Adam's stead as the reward of his 
tested loyalty by the devil under his baptismal vow of 
obedience, when "his will" will be "done on earth, as 
it is in heaven," of course, and which it is quite 
evident cannot be otherwise accomplished. Even if 
every one were in the Church, it would be impossible 
for God's will to be "done on earth, as it is done in 
heaven"; for in that event, if all were spiritual, they 
would "be in the flesh" or physical man of dethroned 
humanity, through which the devil effects the delusion 
of "the mystery of iniquity," man being held in this 
faculty of his moral being in total disability under the 
sentence of physical death, to secure his execution as 
a citizen cannot be executed by law. Therefore man 
in this faculty, although the undisabled inward man. 
with his "will to do" and his faculty to believe, is en- 
throned in Christ over it to offer it "a living sacrifice" 
in meeting the conditions of this temptation-redeemed 
life, it is, nevertheless, related in character, in kind, 
with the devil, and through which he deceives and 
tempts even the regenerate man. This is why "the 
flesh [dethroned outward man] wars against the spirit 
[Christ's temptation-enthroned inward man over the 
outward man], and the spirit wars against the flesh" 



30 Tlic European War and Its Crozvnijig Result. 

[dethroned outward man] in effecting dominion over 
him in his disability in meeting the practical conditions 
of redeemed life through him; while the dethroned 
outward man resists this inward man that sacrifices 
him, and hence he wars against the inward man to 
recover his lost throne, and which is the source of "the 
mystery of iniquity" — that is, its practical and ever- 
present source — and which nothing but resurrection 
justification from under the executed penalty of phys- 
ical death or the millennial change of the outward man 
can remove. 

We should observe here that Christ is to "raise up 
David's throne and sit thereon forever," because David 
was the king in Abraham's covenant house to recover 
and reign over all of the land that God gave to Abraham 
as the redemptive earnest of Adam's world redeemed, 
and which was Adam's Judicial District thereof. Da- 
vid thereby became the king earnest of Adam's throne. 
And therefore when Christ, the Birthright Prince of 
David's royal house, raises up David's throne, that 
fell down in the sense and social life of his house on 
Mount Zion, he will raise up Adam's throne, that fell 
down in his house on Mount Zion, and "sit thereon 
forever," its "second Adam," or Redeemer King, "the 
King of Glory" (martial glory), thereby distinguish- 
ing him as the Recoverer of the world under God's 
provincial government by wresting it from under the 
devil's reign of ruin in death. 

The belief, then, that Christ will reign this side of 
Adam's grave of dethronement and correct the evils 
of the sense and social life of the world, and the be- 
lief that his kingdom is spiritual, are of "the mystery 



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of iniquity" and are working to "take Christ out of" 
his atonement way to recover Adam's throne in his 
world thereby redeemed beyond the grave of his de- 
thronement, and not by any means this side of it, 
except, however, in atonement provision, which is, of 
necessity, probationary. Neither Adam nor David 
had a spiritual throne for Christ to ''raise up and sit 
thereon forever," nor has any man ever had a spiritual 
throne. The Head of Ecclesiastical Rome, however, 
claims the right to occupy both the social and the spir- 
itual thrones of Adam's dethroned world, which is 
''the mystery of iniquity" gone to seed. 

God's atonement reorganized kingdom on earth is 
called "Zion" because the Adamic Garden Home Capital 
was on "Mount Zion" ; and therefore "Mount Zion" 
is also "the city of our God, the joy of the whole 
earth," because it was God's capital also, where he 
reigned in the spiritual department of his government 
on earth conjointly with Adam in its sense and social 
department and with Eve in its Home department, 
thereby making a perfect or triune government, with 
two human and one supreme divine departments. 
And as God provided the garden home capital of the 
world, and as it lost its paradisiacal state in Adam's 
dethronement, that disestablished God's original gov- 
ernment of the world. And as Christ, the Birthright 
Prince of Adam's dethroned house, has wrested 
Adam's throne from the devil that became its god in 
Adam's dethronement, and thereby recovered the world 
in its pristine state, it was meet and right that God 
should provide for it a capital. And hence "the new 
Jerusalem" that "will come down from God out of 



32 The European War and Its Crowning Result, 

heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband," and thus 
"Mount Zion" (Jerusalem) becomes "the [redeemed] 
city of our God, the joy of the whole earth" ; for God 
will reign here with Christ as he did with Adam, Christ 
having reestablished his government on earth in his 
own enthronement in Adam's stead, thereby bruising 
"the serpent's head" by thus counteracting his head de- 
vice by which he dethroned Adam, which made Christ 
"God with us" in the function of our "second Adam," 
or Redeemer King. This is the city that Abraham 
looked for, "whose builder and founder is God," as it 
was the capital of Adam's world and of which Abra- 
ham was the redemptive heir. This is literal and com- 
plete redemption for Adam's dethroned house and 
about which there is no mystery. But if we make 
Christ and his final kingdom spiritual, the redemption 
of Adam's dethroned house is immured in inexplicable 
myster}^ 

Who has ever understood this spiritual kingdom of 
Christ with his Birthright Prince relation to Adam's 
dethroned house? Or who can have an intelligent 
comprehension of a kingdom that is spiritual in which 
Adam's dethroned house and world-domain are re- 
covered under God's original government of the world 
that had a human department with a king and a queen 
and that had a garden home capital on "Mount Zion, 
the city of God, the joy of the whole earth"? With 
such a conception of Christ's kingdom it is impossible 
to understand the nature of the four universal gov- 
ernments of the world, and the prophecies relative to 
them, and their destruction in the millennial establish- 
ment of his kingdom ; nor is it possible to understand 



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its final establishment beyond the grave of Adam's de- 
thronement in his world thereby redeemed, the "new 
heavens and the new earth," that Peter, after his 
mind had been disabused, "by the resurrection of Christ 
from the dead," of the impression that it was to be set 
up this side of the grave of Adam's dethronement, said, 
"We look for . . . wherein dwelleth righteousness," or 
in which the pristine fitness of the world's life has been 
recovered and dwells in redemptive durability. This 
is "the rest [physical man rest in reunion with the in- 
ward man that has entered into justification rest by 
faith] that remains for the people of God," while the 
unredeemed will "go away into a place prepared for 
the devil and his angels," or citizens of his kingdom, 
never to return, of course. 

It may be contended, however, that Christ's millen- 
nial reign on Adam's recovered throne of the world 
will be this side of the grave of Adam's dethronement; 
but this is not only an inexcusable but is a grave error. 
In the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel God gives to 
him a detailed account of the resurrection of his peo- 
ple, and also in his stick symbols gave to him a de- 
tailed account of the reunion of the social and the 
spiritual departments of his government under Christ's 
millennial reign. And Paul says: "For the Lord 
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God : 
and the dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air [to 
escort him to the earth] : and so shall we ever be with 
the Lord [on earth, of course, he being "God with us" 
3 



34 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

and not us with him somewhere else]. Wherefore 
comfort one another with these words." ( i Thess. iv. 
16-18.) "Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not 
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in 
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised in- 
corruptible, and we shall be changed." (i Cor. xv. 
51, 52.) No wicked in these resurrections, which are 
one, any more than there are wicked among them that 
are caught up with the resurrected, or among them that 
are changed ; for those that are resurrected are incor- 
ruptible, while the change in the living removes the dis- 
ability of the dethroned outward man, thereby recover- 
ing his citizenship in the social department of God's 
government, that was arrested to secure his execution 
as a citizen cannot be executed by law, and which is 
effected in the resurrection of God's people, but not 
in the resurrection of the unredeemed, their disability 
and its forfeited citizenship remaining, and, therefore, 
the reunion of the inward man with the outward man 
will be in total disability in forfeited citizenship for- 
ever, which is "the second" or soul death in disability, 
the first being that of the body or outward man. 
Man's "redemption" here "ceaseth forever," of course, 
as there is no faculty through which to institute a 
plan for his recovery, as was the case in the bodily 
disability as the result of Adam's dethronement in this 
faculty, the soul of man being morally incarcerated 
therein but not otherwise disabled, having "a will to 
do" and a faculty to believe, and which was delivered 
and enthroned over the disabled outward or practical 
man as an inevitable result of Christ's inward man 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 35 

temptation victory over the devil through the outward 
man, which could but have put the law in the heart of 
dethroned humanity, thereby established its going in 
good works from the Cradle to the grave of Adam's 
dethronement by the inward man offering the outward 
man "a living sacrifice," wholly acceptable unto God, 
which is his reasonable service," having been delivered 
from his moral imprisonment therein and enthroned 
thereover for this purpose. 

Now, it is quite clear that Adam's dethronement 
placed him in the above state, and it is equally clear 
that Christ's inward man temptation victory over the 
devil through the disabled outward man made atone- 
ment provision for this state of dethroned man. It is 
just as clear that this atonement provision left the 
outward man in his total disability ; and it is also clear 
that man could not have been finally saved from un- 
der the garden law in any other way. There is no 
difficulty in seeing that this atonement plan does save 
man from under the garden law in Adam's world 
thereby recovered under God's original government 
beyond the grave of man's dethronement, which is the 
final test of the efficiency of all systems of operation — 
that is, in the result thereby obtained. 

And then the Psalmist says: ''Our God shall come, 
and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before 
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about 
him. He shall call to the heavens from above [for 
the spirits of his people], and to the earth [for their 
bodies to reunite them in recovered citizenship in the 
kingdom of heaven now to be established in Christ's 
millennial reign; and calls also to the earth for his 



36 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

living people to change them by removing the disa- 
bility of their bodies, or physical men, and thereby re- 
cover their citizenship in the kingdom of heaven that 
is arrested to secure their execution, as citizens can- 
not be executed by law], that he may judge his people. 
Gather my people together unto me; those that have 
made a covenant with me by sacrifice [by losing their 
lives in this present evil world, as did Abraham, to save 
them in Adam's world beyond the grave of his de- 
thronement that Abraham thereby became the re- 
demptive heir of]." (Ps. 1. 3-5.) The wicked are 
not in this resurrection. This is the resurrection of 
those that have made a covenant with Christ, as did 
Abraham, and thereby became heirs with him of the 
promise of Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave 
of his dethronement "for an everlasting possession," 
where every man shall sit "under his own vine and fig 
tree, and none shall make him afraid" of ejectment, 
for might does not prevail as right here, for the 
"swords are here beaten into plowshares, and the spears 
into pruninghooks, when men shall learn war no 
more," and not this side of Adam's grave of dethrone- 
ment, as man will persist in contending for. O "mys- 
tery of iniquity," what hast thou not done to destroy 
Adam's dethroned house by taking Christ out of its 
faith and life in his atonement plan to save it in 
Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave of his de- 
thronement under Christ's reign in Adam's stead, 
thereby reestablishing God's kingdom on earth in its 
original order ! 

And then John, the Revelator, has made the millen- 
nium resurrection so plain that "the wayfaring men 



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[to Abraham's world, as above] may not err therein," 
especially so when they have had "here a little and 
there a little" of its disclosure. He says: "I saw 
thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment 
was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that 
were beheaded for Jesus, and for the word of God, 
and which had not worshiped the beast [the sovereign 
of Imperial Rome], neither his image [maybe the pic- 
ture of this sovereign that he will put in the temple, 
for Paul says, *'He will set himself up in the temple, 
showing that he is God"], neither had received his 
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they 
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But 
the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resur- 
rection: on such the second death [soul death in dis- 
ability, together with the body, the first death in dis- 
ability] hath no power, but they shall be priests of 
God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thou- 
sand years." (Rev. xx. 4-6.) We should observe 
that John begins his account of the millennium resur- 
rection by mentioning the martyrs, as a great many 
have been slain and will be put to death in the end 
under the authority of Imperial Rome. But in con- 
cluding his account of this resurrection he includes all 
of God's people in that they of this resurrection not 
only reign with Christ a thousand years, but upon 
them the second death will have no power. 

This is the resurrection that Paul wanted "by all 
means to attain unto," it being the resurrection out 
from among the wicked dead. After this resurrection 



38 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

John says: "I saw a great white throne [God's sov- 
ereign throne of the world in its millennial estabhsh- 
ment], and him that sat on it, from whose face the 
earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found 
no place for them [that is, the dethroned earth and 
the heaven fled away from the presence of God on 
his reestablished throne of it, just as its governments 
will be driven from the millennium earth and heaven 
'Svhen no place is found for them"]. And I saw the 
dead, small and great, stand before God; and the 
books were opened: and another book was opened, 
which is the book of life [or register of the redeemed] : 
and the dead [the wicked dead in total disability, the 
"second death"] were judged . . . according to 
their works. And the sea gave up the dead which 
were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead 
which were in them: and they were judged every man 
according to their works. And death and hell were 
cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death 
[body and soul totally disabled under God's reestab- 
lished government on earth]. And whosoever was 
not found written in the book of life [''the Lamb's 
book of life"] was cast into the lake of fire [abnormal 
conditions of moral existence, the absence of all good 
and the presence of all evil]." (Rev. xx. 11-15.) We 
should observe that it was those whose names were 
not recorded in "the book of life" that were in this 
judgment — the dead in disability and not the living 
in recovered citizenship in God's millennial estab- 
lished government on earth. 

We should remember in this connection that, when 
Christ sent his disciples out in Israel to proclaim that 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 39 

the kingdom of heaven was at hand and to heal the 
sick and cast out devils, and when they had returned 
particularly impressed with the subjection of the dev- 
ils, he said to them: "Rather rejoice because your 
names are written in heaven." If Christ's redemption 
of Adam's dethroned house is literal and complete, 
which is clearly taught and which reason, with Christ's 
relation to it as its Birthright Prince, by the use 
of atonement provision under reigning laws, clearly 
sustains ; and if every redeemed man will have a home 
in Abraham's world, which is also clearly taught in 
this provision in Palestine, its redemptive earnest, and 
also taught elsewhere ; and if a covenant of sacrifice 
is required to effect salvation through practical life, 
and which is taught by Christ and established in the 
philosophy of his literal redemption, then it follows 
in redemptive fitness that a literal book of registration 
must be kept not only to record the names of them 
that have entered practical or personal salvation, but 
also to record their voluntary covenant by sacrifice, 
which is their part (the party of the second part) of 
the new covenant and which, upon the condition of 
their repentance is, or ought to be, formally made in 
their baptismal vow of obedience to the Father and 
the Son and the Holy Ghost, while God's part (the 
party of the first part) of this covenant is regenera- 
tion, which "creates them in Christ Jesus unto good 
works that God hath before [their regeneration] or- 
dained" — that is, in their baptismal vow or covenant 
of obedience, that they should walk into the grave of 
Adam's dethronement and thereby perfect their title 
to a home in Adam's world redeemed beyond his 



40 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

grave of dethronement, and which was also formally 
made m their part of the new covenant. This being 
true, it may be very readily seen that for man to have 
his name written in this ''Lamb's book of life" is of 
chief importance to him and is therefore an indis- 
pensable atonement provision. 

After this resurrection of the wicked dead in total 
disability and their judgment, John says: "I saw a 
new heaven and a new earth [Peter's "new heaven and 
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," or wherein 
the pristine conditions of the world's life have been re- 
covered and will remain forever] : for the first heaven 
and the first earth were passed away [that is, in their 
dethroned state the devil's works that he foisted upon 
them are now destroyed, and they appear in their 
pristine state]." These are the "things" that were 
"shaken" by God's "voice" when he spoke from "heav- 
en" in giving his law at Mount Sinai that presaged 
the coming establishment of his kingdom of the world ; 
and, speaking "once more" from its throne, they are 
removed "that those which cannot be shaken may re- 
main" — that is, the pristine conditions of the heavens 
and the earth remain, being redeemed. Therefore the 
"kingdom" we now receive "cannot be moved/' being 
recovered and established in its original order in these 
created conditions of the heavens and the earth, which 
are thus redeemed for Adam's dethroned house literal 
and complete. Where is the mystery about it that there 
should be skepticism with regard to its truth? This 
removal of the dethroned heaven and earth is force- 
fully illustrated in the removal of the dethroned man's 
sin by his enthronement in righteousness by regen- 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 41 

eration — or, in other words, enthroned in the pristine 
or normal conditions of his moral existence, which 
make "the new man," the old ''dethroned man" having 
"passed away." This change of the heavens and the 
earth could not have been effected with the wicked 
dead in their graves ; for the grave itself must be de- 
stroyed by a complete resurrection of Adam's de- 
throned house, it being the chief or direct work of the 
devil — that is, in the disorganization of the functional 
faculty and thereby dismemberment of dethroned hu- 
manity. Thus John has disclosed to the world that 
the new heaven and the new earth will not appear im- 
mediately after the resurrection of God's people to en- 
ter the millennial rest under Christ's reign in its social 
life in conjunction with God the Father and God the 
Holy Ghost in its spiritual life, but instead that this 
final redemptive work will be done immediately after 
the resurrection of the wicked at the end of the mil- 
lennium. 

"And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, com- 
ing down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband." (Rev. xxi. 2.) This is the 
Capital that God hath prepared for his sovereign reign 
in the spiritual department of his reestablished govern- 
ment in Adam's world redeemed beyond his grave of 
dethronement in conjunction with Christ in its sense 
and social life, just as he provided Adam's Garden 
Home Capital on Mount Zion for his conjoint reign 
with Adam in the original government of the created 
world. "And I heard a great voice out of heaven say- 
ing. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
he will dwell with themi, and they shall be his people, 



42 The European War and Its CroK'uing Result. 

and God himself shall be with them, and be their God 
[now, Jerusalem or Zion is the "redeemed'' city of 
our God, the joy of the whole earth]. . . . And 
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all 
things new [recover them to their pristine state]. 
And he said unto me. Write : for these words are true 
and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done [that 
is, the great work of redeeming the world under God's 
original government is completed]. I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the end [that is, of. the 
work of redemption]." (Rev. xxi. 3-6.) 

Now let us consult St. John about Imperial Rome, 
especially about its ''eighth head," or form, of govern- 
ment. "And the angel said unto me. Wherefore didst 
thou marv^el [that is, about the relation of ecclesias- 
tical to Imperial Rome and their respective natures 
and of their coming destruction, the former by the 
latter and the latter by Christ in the establishment 
of his Adamic kingdom in his millennial reign on 
earth] ? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman 
[Ecclesiastical Rome], and of the beast that carried 
her [Imperial Rome, in which the former had its ex- 
istence in the dual type of "the mystery of iniquity," 
in that it assumed supremacy in the social and spirit- 
ual life of Adam's dethroned world, while the latter 
assumed supremacy in the social life thereof, and 
therefore the intrigues of the former and also of their 
perpetual conflict with each other] .which hath the sev- 
en heads [forms of governments] and ten horns [or 
kings]. The beast that thou sawest was [that is, was 
an organized government when it "carried the wom- 
an"], and is not [not an organized but a disorgan- 



The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 43 

ized government] ; and shall descend out of the bot- 
tomless pit [or out of its headless or disorganized 
state within the European powers], and go into perdi- 
tion [or be destroyed by Christ's kingdom in the be- 
ginning of his millennial reign] : and they that dwell 
on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not 
written in the book of life from the foundation of the 
world [or from the organic foundation in Abraham's 
covenant house of the promise, "The seed of the wom- 
an shall bruise the serpent's head," by counteracting 
his head device by which he dethroned Adam in his 
own enthronement in Adam's stead in his world there- 
by redeemed, and is therefore "the world to come" and 
before which Christ "stood as a lamb slain" for its 
accomplishment], when they behold the beast that was, 
and is not, and yet is [exists in its disorganized state 
in Europe]." (Rev. xvii. 7, 8.) We should observe 
that the inference here is that those whose names were 
not written in the book of life, that had its existence 
in the promise of the seed of the woman, before it 
went into its organic conditions in Abraham's cove- 
nant house for practical operation in recovering 
Adam's world, or Christ's "world to come" therein 
organized, and not before the creation of Adam's de- 
throned world, which is fatalism, would be astonished 
when they behold the beast, or Imperial Rome, in its 
"eighth head," or form, of government. But of course 
those whose names are written therein will not be 
astonished, having been advised by prophecy of its 
disorganization in the European powers and of its re- 
organization as the result of a great military upheaval. 
Paul also teaches this : "But if we believe that Jesus 



44 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in 
Jesus will God bring with him [that is, their spirits 
when he comes]. For this we say unto you by the 
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain 
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them 
which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archan- 
gel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first [or before the wicked dead] : then we 
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air 
[and escort him to the earth] : and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord [on earth, of course] .... But of the 
times and the seasons, brethren [prophecies and signs], 
ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves 
know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as 
a thief in the night [to the wicked]. For when they 
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction 
cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with 
child; and they shall not escape [the direct results of 
that redemptive event]. But ye, brethren, are not in 
darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief, j 
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the ] 
day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness. There- 
fore let us not sleep, as do others [that is, with regard \ 
to the coming of Christ] ; but let us watch and be so- | 
ber." (i Thess. iv. 4-18-v. 1-6.) And the ?ngel told 
Daniel that ''none of the wicked shall understand, but 
the wise shall understand." Paul here wrote for God's 
people of all time: ''And here is the mind that hath 
wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains [on 
which the citv of Rome is built and which was the 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 45 

capital of Imperial Rome, and also the seat of Ecclesi- 
astical Rome, and are therefore the representatives of 
Imperial Rome's seven forms of government] .... 
And there are seven kings [or rulers in her respective 
forms of government] : five are fallen, and one is 
[emperor at the time John saw this government], and 
the other is not yet come [its king] ; and when he 
Cometh, he must continue a short space [this is be- 
lieved to have been Napoleon's son by Louise, who 
was crowned king of Italy and who lived only a short 
time]. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is 
the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdi- 
tion. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten 
kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but 
receive power as kings, one hour with the beast. 
These have one mind, and shall give their power and 
strength unto the beast [Imperial Rome under its 
politico-ecclesiastical head, or form, of government]. 
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb 
shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and 
King of kings [seeking his millennial enthronement 
in the social life of the world] : and they that are with 
him are called, and chosen, and faithful [the redeemed 
hosts ; we are here taught that the destruction of Impe- 
rial Rome under the reign of "the son of man, the son 
of perdition, that Wicked," will be by direct conflict by 
Christ and his redeemed hosts]. And he saith unto 
me. The waters which thou sawest, where the whore 
sitteth [ecclesiastical Rome], are peoples, and multi- 
tudes, and nations, and tongues [its entire member- 
ship]. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the 
beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her 



46 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh [devour 
her completely], and burn her with fire [this may be 
the city of Rome that will be burned with fire]. For 
God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to 
agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until 
the words of God [prophecies] shall be fulfilled." 
(Rev. xvii. 9-17.) 

If the Czar of Russia becomes the reigning head of 
Imperial Rome, the destruction of ecclesiastical Rome 
will be but what should be expected. Imperial Rome 
and ecclesiastical Rome cannot exist together; for 
Imperial Rome has now succeeded in enthroning its 
sovereign in the social and ecclesiastical life of Adam's 
dethroned world, which is "the mystery of iniquity" 
crystallized in Cain's murderous contention, having 
taken Christ out of its way and hence out of his atone- 
ment way to recover Adam's throne of the world un- 
der God's supreme reign in its spiritual department, 
thereby recovering and reestablishing God's govern-] 
ment on earth in its original order when "righteous- 
ness shall dwell in the heavens and earth" thereby 
made "new." We should not fail to observe that 
Christ is taken out by "the mystery of iniquity" of the 
atonement provision to enthrone himself in Adam's 
stead in the sense and social life of the world by ef- 
fecting its regeneration and thereby enthroning God 
in its spiritual life, which his Church is expecting and 
praying him to do. This is the kingdom that it i^ 
praying to the Father to let come when his will "will 
be done on earth, as it is in heaven." How can this 
kingdom of God come for its final establishment when 
Christ is taken out of the atonement provision to wrest 



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Adam's throne from under the devil's reign by his own 
enthronement in Adam's stead under God's sovereign 
reign in its spiritual department? 

Now let us consult Daniel with regard to the time 
and other circumstances that will characterize Impe- 
rial Rome in finishing his work of destruction in 
Adam's dethroned world and ''go into perdition," or 
be destroyed by Christ, to make way for the reestab- 
lishment of God's kingdom of the world by Christ's 
enthronement in Adam's stead in its social depart- 
ment in conjunction with God the Father and God 
the Holy Ghost's sovereign reign in its spiritual de- 
partment, thereby recovering it in its original order. 

After Daniel's prolonged confession and prayer for 
his people, an angel appeared to him and said : "Sev- 
enty weeks are determined upon thy people and upon 
thy holy city, to finish the transgression [Adam's de- 
throned transgression], and to make an end of sins 
[personal sins by regeneration, and finally by remov- 
ing the effects of sin from the regenerate and from 
the world], and to make reconciliation for iniquity 
[that is, by so providing for its deluded subjects that 
God would be "just when he justifies" them from this 
audacious sin that assumes the prerogative of God 
himself in that it seeks to enthrone man under the dev- 
il's abnormal reign of ruin in death; by preventing 
Christ, the Birthright Prince of Adam's dethroned 
house, from recovering its throne under God's su- 
preme reign in everlasting life], and to bring in [into 
the world redeemed beyond the grave of Adam's de- 
thronement] everlasting righteousness [or the pristine 
conditions of its existence with man's adaptation there- 



48 The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 

to, together with his going in the normal conditions of 
his moral being] , and to seal up the vision and proph- 
ecy [fulfill], and to anoint the most Holy [formal in- 
augural of Christ into Jerusalem — "Mount Zion, the 
city of our God, the joy of the whole earth" — ^his re- 
covered capital of the whole world, being therein *'God 
with us"]. Know therefore and understand, that from 
the going forth of the commandment to restore and to 
build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince [Christ 
the Birthright Prince of Adam's dethroned house] 
shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: 
the streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in 
troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks 
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the 
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the 
city and the sanctuary [the Romans are the people that 
did this; then the prince that is to come will be a 
Roman prince, "the man of sin, the son of perdition, 
that Wicked"] ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood 
[great destruction of life], and unto the end of the 
war desolations are determined. And he [this Roman 
prince that is to come] shall confirm [complete the sev- 
enty weeks' covenant] the covenant with many [with 
the Jews that are in Palestine] for one week [which 
completes the seventy weeks in which the work of re- 
demption was to be completed and Christ enthroned in 
Jerusalem in Adam's stead] : and in the midst of the 
week [three years and a half] he shall cause the sacri- 
fice and the oblation to cease ["setting himself up in 
the temple, showing that he is God"], and for the over- 
spreading of abominations [imperialistic disregard for 
law] he shall make it [Palestine] desolate, even until 



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the consummation [of the work that was determined 
within the seventy weeks], and that determined shall 
be poured upon the desolate [desolator]." (Dan. ix. 
24-27.) We should observe that one week of the 
seventy weeks was left unfulfilled at the crucifixion of 
Christ, which deprived Daniel's people of Christ's 
Adamic kingdom and sent them into exile again from 
Palestine (Eden), their redemptive earnest of Adam's 
world redeemed beyond the grave of his dethronement, 
which estopped the fulfillment of the seventy weeks that 
was determined upon them and the Holy City when 
they were in it ; and hence their return and recognition 
as God's peculiar people by this triumphant Roman 
prince inaugurates this week, by virtue of which the 
Jews will offer their accustomed sacrifices in the temple. 

"And he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace be- 
tween the seas [the Mediterranean Sea on the west and 
the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee on the east] in the 
glorious holy mountain [''Mount Zion," Adam's Gar- 
den Home Capital of the world in Eden, his Judicial 
District of the world]." (Dan. xi. 45.) 

How curious and yet how befitting it is that "the 
man of sin, the son of perdition, that Wicked," the 
sovereign of reorganized Imperial Rome, who has 
assumed the prerogative of God in his reign in the 
social and spiritual departments of the world's govern- 
ment, should have removed the capital of Imperial 
Rome from the city of Rome to Jerusalem and "plant 
it" on "Mount Zion," where God reigned supreme in 
the spiritual department of his government of the 
world in conjunction with King Adam in its sense and 
social departments and with Queen Eve in its home 
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50 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

department, and where Christ will raise up David's 
(Adam's) throne, that fell down in his house on 
''Mount Zion," and sit thereon forever in Adam's 
stead under God's government thereby recovered on 
earth in its original order ! 

Now, has not "the mystery of iniquity" in the en- 
thronement of the son of perdition effectually taken 
Christ out of its way of accomplishing its audacious 
work of enthroning dethroned man upon Adam's 
throne under the abnormal reign of the devil as god 
in the sense and social departments of God's govern- 
ment on earth, and at the same time taken Christ out 
of his atonement way of recovering Adam's throne by 
keeping the children in his Church, or Adamic king- 
dom, that the Father has given to him in atonement re- 
covered citizenship in its spiritual department, and in 
recovering those by regeneration that have been al- 
lowed to go out of it into Adam's dethroned world? 
Therefore the only redemptive alternative for Christ 
to recover Adam's throne of the world under God's 
government, thereby itself also recorded, is to come 
and destroy this reorganized government of Imperial 
Rome by thus taking Christ out of the way, and with 
it all of earth's governments, they having been estab- 
lished in this Cain contention in that they did not en- 
throne God in their spiritual life. 

It is quite evident that God could only have estab- 
lished a government in the world in the normal condi- 
tions of its human citizenship ; and it is equally evident 
that the transgression of these conditions, as did Adam 
under the deception of the devil when he was on trial 
to test his loyalty as king in its social department, 



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would, as an inevitable, disestablish this government 
by dethroning Adam in the forfeited conditions of his 
citizenship therein and which, of course, could but have 
enthroned the devil god over him in these abnormal 
conditions of his moral being. Now, to reorganize this 
government on earth man's throne must be recovered 
by his cooperation with God in wresting it from the 
devil. This Adam could not do, as he was held under 
the garden or test law in the lost conditions of his 
citizenship to secure his execution, as a citizen cannot 
be executed by law, and therefore he had no reserve 
of power with which to cooperate with God in wresting 
his throne from the devil. It became, therefore, a 
redemptive necessity to provide a prince in Adam's 
dethroned house with superior power to that of the 
devil by which to wrest Adam's throne of the world 
from him. This prince God has provided in Christ, 
the promised seed of the woman; and, although he is 
made under the garden law, being born of a woman, 
he being the Son of God by direct creation in the vir- 
gin womb of dethroned humanity, had a superior pow- 
er to that of the devil, and being in this relation in 
kind with dethroned humanity, he could and has ex- 
erted it in atonement provision to recover humanity 
from under the garden law in its forfeited citizenship 
to its pristine citizenship under God's government, 
thereby wresting it from the devil by Christ's enthrone- 
ment in Adam's stead. And I want to go on record 
in the affirmation that, if I know anything certainly, I 
know that Christ has made these atonement provisions 
to enthrone himself in Adam's stead and has thereby 
reestablished in atonement provision God's govern- 



52 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

ment on earth in its original order. And now what I 
wish to further impress the reader with is this : If 
Christ cooperated with God the Father in recovering 
the citizenship of Adam's dethroned house in its Cradle, 
unconditionally, of course, then they must cooperate 
with God in meeting the conditions of this citizenship 
in going from the cradle to the grave of Adam's de- 
thronement, as otherwise it will be forfeited and they 
will be left in this relation to God's reestablished gov- 
ernment on earth forever, God having done all that 
was possible to have been done to prevent it, and there- 
fore man alone is to blame — as he is for this European 
war. It is man's war under ''the mystery of iniquity" 
that has taken Christ out of the way of preventing it, 
thereby making it possible. God governs man by his 
cooperation, and in no other way, by directing his 
steps in the normal conditions of his existence; and 
therefore when man rebels against God's authority he 
is at once involved in its abnormal results and in 
which God does not control him, but instead, he having 
thereby become the child of the ''devil his lusts, he 
will do." 

God is therefore governing the world to-day only 
through his Church kingdom, Christ having built to- 
gether its social and spiritual departments for God's 
habitation through the spirit — or, in other words, for 
his reign in its spiritual department — and therefore it 
"is the light of the world, the salt of the earth," and 
through its communion and cooperation with God can 
the world alone be restrained from the commission of 
crime and saved from its sins. God is in no way 
chargeable with the sins of the world, nor is it because 



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of the inefficiency of his atonement kingdom that the 
world is not restrained from the commission of crime 
and saved from its sins, but instead because the citi- 
zens of his kingdom do not keep themselves in spirit- 
ual communion with him and because the world will 
not cooperate with him through their agency. When 
will the world learn that the atonement, of necessity, 
has a conditional or human department and that all 
that are finally lost are lost in this department, and are 
lost largely where the Church is because it is not in 
spiritual communion with God in the administration 
of its atonement provisions? And when will the 
Church come to fully realize that the form of godli- 
ness, however complete, cannot save its subjects from 
their sins ? Neither can God employ them to save oth- 
ers from their sins. 

That God has a superintending province over the 
world that he has unconditionally redeemed in the 
Cradle, and that he has provided to save it by its co- 
operation through its practical life, there can be no 
doubt. But in its exercise we are assured that he 
neither conflicts with himself, nor with the moral free 
agency of man, nor with his laws, nor is he tempted 
or biased by the evil of the world, nor does he tempt 
any man with it, he being ''above evil," and therefore 
his superintending providence "is good and perfect" 
and unchangeable. There is no excuse for getting 
God mixed up with what the devil is doing in his 
abnormal reign in ''this present evil world" — that is, 
of his own making. There is no difficulty in ascer- 
taining who it is that has instituted and is engaged in 
carrying on this great European war. Nor is there 



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any difficulty in seeing that he (the devil) is wise and 
subtle and of great power. There is serious difficulty, 
however, if an evil principle is substituted for the 
devil, which he very much desires and which man 
persists in doing, although it has no support in God's 
Word or in reason or in nature. We should remem- 
ber that the devil exhausted his skill in trying to as- 
sociate God with him in his effort to break Job's in- 
tegrity. There is nothing that pleases the devil so 
well as that of man's belief that God is involved in evil 
that he is the author of. 

Although this European war may be the subject of 
prophecy, and which I think it is; and, although God 
may have to dispose of its crowning result in the final 
establishment of his Adamic kingdom in the world, 
he is neither responsible for its existence nor for its 
legitimate results. He has nothing to do with them 
whatever, no more than a farmer has to do with the 
blowing down of a tree on his farm by a windstorm; 
but it is his province, however, not only to remove the 
tree, but also to use it in the accomplishment of such 
plans as he can utilize it in perfecting. Why is it 
that the world will not know that there is a devil in 
its dethroned state that is the author of all of its 
evils and that God is doing all that can be done, with 
dethroned man's cooperation, to prevent its ravages 
and finally to remove it by man's redemption from its 
presence and power — or, in other words, by the banish- 
ment of the devil, its author, "to a place prepared for 
him and his angels" ? This, I believe, will be done in 
the near future, much sooner than the world is ex- 
pecting this closing event of its dethroned life. And 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 55 

should not the Church, or Adam's kingdom recovered 
in atonement provision, pray to the Father to let it 
come by Christ's enthronement in its millennial es- 
tablishment? Not, however, by repeating the Lord's 
Prayer formally in public, but instead in the closet 
after the door is shut, as the Lord has advised it to 
do ; and there, shut in with God, plead with him to let 
his kingdom come and put an end to the devil's reign 
of crime and suffering and death. 

I feel that I ought to say in this connection that I 
have often wondered why the Lord's Prayer was ever 
made a public prayer and repeated in the formal man- 
ner in which it is done. If ever Christ gave to his 
disciples a strictly confidential thing, it was this prayer 
that he gave to them as the result of their asking him 
to teach them how to pray. The Lord's Prayer, to 
me, is the most difficult of all prayers to pray in spirit 
and in truth. I need to be alone with God, with no eye 
to see nor ear to hear but his, when I pray this prayer 
that Christ taught his people to pray. To make the 
Lord's Prayer public seems to me to be using it as did 
the Pharisees their prayers and which the Lord cau- 
tioned his disciples not to do, telling them to enter the 
closet and shut the door and then pray. 

Now let us hear what Paul, the aged apostle to the 
Gentiles by special commission, to whom Christ had 
given his kingdom when "the mystery of iniquity" in 
its formal or Pharisaical type had taken him out of its 
atonement provisions to recover Adam's throne in 
Abraham's house, said of the enthroned appearance 
of the sovereign of reorganized Imperial Rome under 
its ^'eighth head/' or form, of government as the final 



56 The European War and Its Croimting Result. 

work of ''the mystery of iniquity" and what he says 
about the world's religious life when this prophetic 
event occurs : "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the 
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering 
together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, 
or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by 
letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand 
[this was about eighteen hundred and seventy years 
ago] . Let no man deceive you by any means : for 
that day shall not come, except there come a falling 
away first [that is, a falling away from spiritual life 
by Christ's Gentile Church into formality, as did his 
Jewish Church or kingdom, and which made it ineffec- 
tual in enthroning him in Adam's stead in the sense 
and social life of Abraham's covenant house in con- 
junction with God the Father and God the Holy 
Ghost's sovereign reign in its spiritual life and which 
is God's kingdom recovered on earth in atonement 
provision for its reestablishment in Adam's world 
redeemed beyond the grave of dethronement; and 
therefore Christ took this kingdom from them as a 
redemptive necessity to secure God's reign in its spir- 
itual department to make it effectual in restricting the 
world from crime and saving it from its sins, thereby 
gathering citizens out of Adam's dethroned world for 
its final establishment, and for this specific purpose 
Christ gave it to the Gentiles — that is, to secure his 
reign in its social department in conjunction with 
God in its spiritual department — this "falling away" of 
the Gentiles is gradual and conclusive, as with Abra- 
ham's covenant house which sent them into exile from 
Palestine (Eden), their redemptive earnest of Adam's 



The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 57 

world redeemed beyond the grave of his dethrone- 
ment, and therefore Paul calls this "falling away" of 
the Gentiles **the dullness of the Gentiles come in" and 
connects it with the end of the Jewish time of exile 
from Palestine, when Christ took his kingdom from 
them and gave it to the Gentiles; so that when the 
Gentiles go into eternal exile from Abraham's world 
in its millennium redemption a remnant of Daniel's 
people will have returned from their present exile, 
which has been gradual and which inaugurates the 
unfilled week of the seventy weeks determined upon 
them when they returned from their Babylonian exile 
from Palestine; this is a curious but a befitting re- 
demptive event about which we shall say more here- 
after], and that man of sin be revealed, the son of 
perdition [that is, the sovereign of reorganized Im- 
perial Rome out of the powers of Europe, where it 
was disorganized, is now enthroned thereover in its 
politico-ecclesiastical form of government as the result 
of the falling away of Christ's kingdom from its spir- 
itual life into formality, where he alone could have pre- 
vented this event; for formality in Christ's Church — 
kingdom is the result of ''the mystery of iniquity" and 
therefore takes Christ out of it finally as the Saviour 
of the world by his enthronement in Adam's stead iu 
its sense and social life, with God's sovereign reign in 
its spiritual life]." 

And is not this great war in Europe an indubitable 
evidence of the falling away of Christ's Church king- 
dom from its spiritual life or of its divorcement from 
its spiritual department where God reigns, and whose 
reign alone can make the Church a restraining and 



58 The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 

saving institution in the world's dethroned life? It 
may be contended, however, that the Church has made 
a great effort to prevent such an occurrence, which is 
true. But what has been the nature of her effort, as 
all depends upon that ? An effort to succeed must em- 
body the legitimate conditions or means of success, or 
failure is inevitable. And there is no one that will 
seriously investigate, in the light of God's Word and 
of reason, this great problem in the social life of "this 
present evil world" that will not see that nothing but 
God's spiritual reign in the life of the world as the 
result of saving it from sin by preserving its citizen- 
ship in his atonement-recovered kingdom in good 
works, or by regeneration where this has not been done, 
and thereby bringing it into conscious communion with 
him under the munificent reign of Christ in its sense 
and social life, can effectually solve this problem. And 
none, I suppose, will contend that the nature of this 
otherwise laudable effort to prevent war was that of 
enthroning God in the spiritual life of the world as the 
result of enthroning Christ in its sense and social life; 
for it is manifest that the nature of this effort was to 
enthrone Christ in the social life of the world by the 
use of social means and therefore without God in its 
spiritual life. The truth is that an effort to enthrone 
Christ in the social life of the world by a peace confer- 
ence and a court of arbitration is, in effect, an effort 
to enthrone Christ this side of the grave of Adam's 
dethronement in the abnormal conditions of the 
world's life as the result of the devil's usurped reign 
therein as its god; whereas Christ has only provided 
to reign in the social life of the world by saving it 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 59 

from its sins, thereby putting the law in its heart and 
writing it in its mind, which would be effected in his 
Church if it was spiritual, and hence it is the light to 
the world and the salt of the earth. 

This is but Elijah's Mount Carmel error in an 
effort to destroy idolatry in Israel repeated, although 
it proved a signal failure and was designed to save 
the world from the use of physical or social means of 
any sort to save the world from its social evils, or was 
rather designed to teach the Church that it could not 
save the world by such means. No wonder that Elijah 
prayed to God to kill him, for he had reached the 
conclusion from what he thought was an indubitable 
test that God's plan was a signal failure to save Israel 
from idolatry. But God neither killed him nor chided 
him, but instead fed him and then took him to Mount 
Sinai, where he had given to Moses his law, that Eli- 
jah thought had proved a failure; and, after physical 
displays of his power and in which Elijah did not see 
God, to remind Elijah of his Mount Carmel experience, 
he taught Elijah the efficiency of his plan to destroy 
idolatry in Israel in ''the still small voice" that speaks 
sins forgiven. No wonder that Elijah drew his mantle 
over his head at this divine disclosure of his ignorance 
of God's plan to destroy idolatry in Israel. And yet 
Christ's Church-kingdom, under its Gentile adminis- 
tration of the atonement provisions to save the world, 
has not discovered that its ''still small voice" that 
speaks personal sins forgiven is its only effectual 
means of accomplishing this redemptive result. Abra- 
ham's covenant house failed to discover this atone- 
ment provision of raising up David's throne by Christ 



6o The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

to sit thereon forever, even after God had disclosed it 
to Elijah in such a signal manner, and therefore cru- 
cified Christ because he would not raise if up in the 
sin-deranged or abnormal conditions of the world's 
social life. And the devil exhausted his deceptive 
genius and his tempting power to accomplish this — 
that is, to get Christ to raise up Adam's throne in the 
sense and social life of the world under his abnormal 
throne this side of his grave of dethronement, and 
hence his scathing rebuke of Peter, saying: "Get thee 
behind me, Satan [where Christ has put Satan as his 
worshiper, by his inward man-temptation victory over 
him through the disabled outward or social man of 
dethroned humanity, in rejecting Satan's audacious 
proposition to accept Adam's throne under his usurped 
reign and for which Peter contended in his rebuke of 
Christ for teaching that he would be killed and after 
three days rise again — that is, as an atonement means 
of raising up David's (Adam's) throne beyond the 
grave of his dethronement in his world thereby re- 
deemed under God's government itself thereby rees- 
tablished *'and sit thereon forever"] : for thou savorest 
not the things that be of God, but of men." 

Men think to-day that Christ can raise up Adam's 
throne this side of the grave of his dethronement and 
restore his sin-deranged world to its pristine order by 
his power and authority in conjunction with man's 
formal cooperation through the outward or practical 
man, w^hose citizenship in the social department of 
God's government on earth is arrested under the sen- 
tence of physical death to secure his execution, as a 
citizen cannot be executed by law. This is what Cain 



The European War and Its Cromning Result. 6i 

attempted to do when he offered his sacrifice through 
the disabled outward man independent of the justi- 
fied faith dominance of the atonement-enthroned in- 
ward man thereover and through which God alone 
reigns in the spiritual department of his atonement- 
recovered kingdom on earth, it being "built together" 
by Christ's enthronement in its social department ''for 
God's habitation" or reign "through the spirit or un- 
disabled inward man with his "will to do" and his 
faculty to believe. This is "the mystery of iniquity" 
that will "reveal" or enthrone "the man of sin, the 
son of perdition," on Adam's throne this side of the 
grave of his dethronement, "who opposeth and ex- 
alteth himself above all that is called God [when he 
ascends his politico-ecclesiastical throne, as above], 
. . . sitteth in the temple as God, showing himself 
that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was 
with you, I told you these things ? And now ye know 
what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his 
time [or enthroned when "the mystery of iniquity" 
has taken Christ out of his way of enthronement]. 
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only 
he [Christ in the gospel] who letteth [hindereth] will 
let [hinder], until he be taken out of the way [that is, 
until Christ is taken out of his gospel plan of recover- 
ing Adam's throne of the world in his own Birthright 
of it in Adam's world thereby redeemed beyond the 
grave of his dethronement under God's government, 
also recovered and established on earth in its original 
order]. And then shall that Wicked be revealed [en- 
throned on Adam's throne in his politico-ecclesiastical 
government of Imperial Rome], whom the Lord will 



62 The European War and Its Crozmiing Result. 

consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy 
with the brightness of his coming [having been taken 
out of his gospel way of recovering Adam's throne, has 
now returned to recover it under his millennial reign 
by destroying the world's governments that *'the mys- 
ter}^ of iniquity" have established and by removing 
them from the earth to give place for his kingdom, 
that ''shall fill the whole world, and never shall be de- 
stroyed," Abraham's promised land and great nation 
that he and all that looked for it died "without receiv- 
ing," of course, as it requires the resurrection to put 
them in possession of it] : even him, whose coming 
[to his throne] is after the working of Satan with all 
power [abnormal] and signs and lying wonders, and 
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness [What is 
so deceivable in unrighteousness as is "the mystery of 
iniquity," "deceiving the very elect if possible," as said 
the Saviour?] in them that perish; because they re- 
ceived not the love of the truth, that they might be 
saved." (2 Thess. ii. 4-10.) 

The Saviour anchored the truth of his coming to 
establish his kingdom in his millennial reign to two 
Biblical events, which are these: "They did eat, they 
drank, they married wives, they were given in mar- 
riage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and 
the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also 
as it was in the days of Lot ; they did eat, they drank, 
they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded ; but 
the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire 
and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man 
is revealed [that is, in his coming and in his formal 



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enthronement in the sense and social departments of 
God's government thereby recovered on earth in con- 
junction with God the Father and God the Holy 
Ghost's sovereign reign in its spiritual department, 
thus recovering and reestablishing it in its original 
order]." (Luke xvii. 27-29.) And the angel said: 
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the 
book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to 
and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." (Dan. 
xii. 4.) Was there ever a time when men and women 
were going to and fro throughout the civilized world, 
meeting in conference and making speeches and read- 
ing papers upon the social and religious problems of 
the world, as they are now and have been for several 
years ? And was there ever such a thorough knowledge 
of the social and religious conditions of the world, es- 
pecially of the former, as the result of this going to and 
fro of men and women, as there is to-day? And this is 
a sign that the angel gave to Daniel of the end after 
telling him to seal the book of his prophecy — that is, 
not to rely upon his ability to understand it, but to 
depend chiefly upon the signs for knowledge of the 
near approach of the end. Therefore he said again: 
"Go thy way, Daniel : for the words [of the prophecy] 
are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried [by 
their knowledge of the near approach of Christ's com- 
ing and the result of the trimming of their lamps, which 
have gone out while they have slept over this great 
coming redemptive event] ; but the wicked shall do 
wickedly [just as they did in Noah's and Lot's day] : 
and none of the wicked shall understand; but the 



64 The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 

wise [God's people] shall understand." (Dan. xii. 
9, 10.) 

Now let us hear Peter in the correction of his "mys- 
tery of iniquity" error, that required of Christ the 
raising up of David's throne this side of his grave and 
''sit thereon forever," which represented Adam's throne 
in that David was the king in Abraham's covenant house 
that recovered and reigned over all of the land that 
God promised to Abraham as the redemptive earnest 
of Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave of his 
dethronement, and which was Eden, Adam's judicial 
district of the world ; and therefore David was the 
king earnest of Adam's recovered throne. And when 
Christ, David's Son, who is also the Birthright Prince 
of Adam's house, raises up David's throne, he raises 
up Adam's throne, that fell down in his house on 
"Mount Zion" in his Garden Home Capital of the 
world, and will there "sit thereon forever," its "second 
Adam, or Redeemer King. God, in giving to Abraham 
Adam's Judicial District of the world, made him the 
redemptive heir of the world ; and David, being the 
king that recovered and reigned over all of this x\dam- 
ic Judicial District of the world, became the redemptive 
king earnest of Adam's throne. It was this relation 
of David to Adam's dethroned house and his coopera- 
tion with God in effecting Christ's enthronement in 
Adam's stead in his world, thereby redeemed beyond 
the grave of his dethronement, that made David "a 
man after God's own heart," and not because of Da- 
vid's personal character ; and it was Abraham's cooper- 
ation with God in his effort to recover x\dam's throne 
by Christ's enthronement in Adam's stead, thereby 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 65 

recovering his government on earth in its original 
order, that made Abraham "the friend of God," and 
not because of his personal character otherwise. We 
should observe that Peter corrected his great error, and 
also that of his people, with regard to the place where 
Christ would recover Adam's throne in the final estab- 
lishment of Adam's kingdom, in the grandest acclaim 
that was ever uttered by man, and which is this: 
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath 
begotten us again [lost their first hope of David's 
raised-up throne in Christ's crucifixion, for they ex- 
pected he would raise it up this side of the grave] 
unto a lively hope [exhilarating, enthusiastic, a living 
hope] by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the 
dead [Peter now saw where Christ would raise up 
David's throne and sit thereon forever], to an inherit- 
ance [Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave of 
his dethronement, Abraham's promised land, where 
God has promised to "make of him a great nation" 
out of his seed after him or out of the redeemed, with 
Christ, the heir in his house of Adam's throne, its 
"second Adam" or redeemed King] incorruptible [ab- 
normal conditions of life will never be foisted upon it 
again as the result of the dethronement of its king], 
and undefiled [redeemed from all of the effects of 
Adam's dethronement], and that fadeth not away [is 
"an everlasting possession" for Abraham and his 
Christ seed after him], reserved in heaven [in atone- 
ment provision, this being the "life hid with Christ in 
God," the "rest that remains for the people of God"] 
for you [us], who are kept [in holiness or good works 
5 



66 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

to the end] by the power of God through faith unto 
salvation [this saints' rest salvation, or salvation com- 
plete] ready [in atonement provision] to be revealed 
[or possessed in the last time], ... or when 
Christ, who is our life [or this Adamic world redeemed 
life beyond the grave of his dethronement], shall ap- 
pear [that is, to establish his Adamic kingdom], then 
shall ye also appear with him in glory [this glory of 
literal redemption and which Christ prayed to the Fa- 
ther that his people ''may be where he is to behold"]. 
(I Pet. i. 3-5; Col. iii. 3, 4.) 

Now, the wonder is, to whatever it may be attrib- 
uted — that is, that after Christ's scathing rebuke of 
Peter for contending that he should raise up David's 
throne this side of his grave and sit thereon forever, 
and although Peter had so lucidly and forcefully cor- 
rected his error as to the place of Christ raising up 
David's throne, the Church of Christ, even, has nei- 
ther discovered the place where Christ will finally 
establish his kingdom, nor the nature of his kingdom ; 
for she believes that Christ will establish his kingdom 
in heaven and that it is a spiritual kingdom. While 
Peter, after his mind was disabused by the resurrec- 
tion of Christ out of Adam's grave of dethronement 
of the impression that his kingdom should be estab- 
lished this side of the grave of Adam's dethronement 
in his dethroned world, of course, said : 'Tor we look 
for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness." Or wherein the pristine fitness of man 
and his world inheritance are recovered and dwell in 
redemptive durability — that is, as the result of Christ's 
resurrection as the final atonement provision of bruis- 



The European War and Its Crowning Result 67 

ing the serpent's head or of counteracting his head 
device by which he dethroned Adam in physical death, 
thus teaching that Christ's kingdom will be finally 
established beyond the grave of Adam's dethronement 
in his world thereby redeemed and that it is David's 
(Adam's) throne raised up in the sense and social 
department of God's government in conjunction with 
his sovereign reign in its spiritual department, thereby 
reuniting these departments that were separated by 
Adam's dethronement, which reestablishes God's king- 
dom on earth in its original order. This is the king- 
dom that will fill the whole world when it has de- 
stroyed earth's governments and, of course, is the king- 
dom Christ has instructed his people to pray to the 
Father to let come — that is, in Christ's enthronement 
as a redemptive fact, first, in his millennial reign, 
when the devil will be chained (not banished), as 
will be the case in the end of the millennium, when it 
will be established in Adam's world restored to its 
Edenic conditions of existence ; for the grave will then 
have been destroyed that had cast its revolting, devas- 
tating blight upon it. 

And now, since Christ has been taken, by the 
wondrous strategic working of ''the mystery of in- 
iquity," out of the way in the gospel in preventing 
this great European war, that has shocked the reli' 
gious world and that has marshaled its millions of 
combatants, with the most improved implements of 
war, in a most terrific and destructive strife upon the 
field where, under the workings of "the mystery of 
iniquity," dethroned man established his last univer- 
sal government by conquest extending through hun- 



68 The European War and Its Crowning Result 

dreds of years, in a gigantic effort to recover Adam's 
throne of the world under the devil's usurped and 
hence abnormal reign as its god instead of under 
God's recovered sovereign reign in the enthronement 
of Christ, whose right it is to reign both by birth and 
by atonement provision in Adam's stead; and since it 
is clearly prophesied that this universal government of 
man's establishing, and that has been "wounded with 
the sword" and that lies headless within the European 
powers, shall be recognized under its "eighth head," or 
form, of government as the result of a great military 
upheaval within these powers for supremacy, it seems 
to me, at least, that it were altogether reasonable that 
Christ's Church, or Adamic kingdom, instead of pray- 
ing to God to bring about peace by negotiations be- 
tween these contending powers that will adjust their 
differences, which they themselves do not understand 
(for two of these contending powers have decided that 
militarism must be destroyed in one of the contending 
powers as the only possible condition of peace, while 
the other contends that the map of Europe must be 
changed as the result of peace, which, I think, is not 
only significant but correct, and also the map of the 
world as well, being blessed with the millennial reign 
of the Son of God, our Elder Brother), should be 
praying night and day to God the Father to let his 
kingdom come — not, however, in the universal prev- 
alence of its truth, as is thought, but instead in the 
enthronement of Christ as a redemptive fact in Adam's 
stead in its sense and social departments, in conjunc- 
tion with his sovereign reign in its spiritual department 
— for which Christ has made atonement provisions-— 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 69 

when God's will will be done on earth as it is done in 
heaven and when "the swords will be beaten into plow- 
shares, and the spears into pruninghooks ; when men 
shall learn war no more; and when every man shall 
sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none shall 
make him afraid" — that is, of ejectment, for his title 
is everlasting; and might will not be right, for con- 
questing imperialism, enthroned lawlessness, or the 
"abomination that maketh desolate, that now stands 
where it ought not," will be removed from the earth, 
and "righteousness will dwell in it." 

And especially should Christ's Church, or Adamic 
kingdom, do this, as none of these blessings are possi- 
ble until Christ is enthroned on Adam's recovered 
throne that Christ has wrested in atonement provision 
from under the devil's abnormal reign as the god of 
Adam's dethroned world, as their opposites are the 
result of Adam's dethronement, which as an inevitable 
disestablished God's kingdom on earth and, of course, 
Christ's enthronement in Adam's stead through atone- 
ment provision that satisfied the garden law and there- 
by "reconciled God to the world," reestablishes it final- 
ly in its original order. 

And it seems to me at least, after looking for this 
great conquesting upheaval (for that is what it is) in 
Europe for nearly a half century, that the wise of 
Christ's Church, or Adamic kingdom — God's original 
kingdom on earth reestablished in atonement provision 
in Christ's enthronement therein in Adam's stead — 
should be very earnestly engaged in trimming "their 
lamps," for they have certainly "gone out while they 
have slept" on the coming of Christ ; for their knowl- 



70 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

edge of the nature of this great redemptive event that 
will end the gospel dispensation, together with earth's 
governments, and open up the millennium epoch of 
human redemption, is very indefinite, to say the least 
of it, when it should be well defined. For these will 
be times that will try the faith of men that dwell 
on earth, such as never have been — "No, nor never 
shall be," says the Saviour — at least I so interpret. 
It is certainly no time for the Church, or Christ's Adam- 
ic kingdom, to persist in the belief that God's kingdom 
will come into the life of the dethroned world and cor- 
rect its disorder through the agency of an international 
court of arbitration and peace conferences or any other 
social agencies, however well devised and laudable 
they may be. And there is nothing more manifest 
than is the fact that Christ's Church, or Adamic king- 
dom of to-day, is relying for the correction of the evils 
of the world or its salvation from sin largely upon 
human agencies employed in the social department of 
its life instead of relying upon spiritual agencies em- 
ployed in the spiritual department of its life, where 
the world is alone redeemed by human agency. Out of 
its spiritual life it has not, nor can it have, any human 
agency in saving the world from its sins. 

When will the Church and the world fully under- 
stand the great fundamental truth that God's atone- 
ment has provided to save man from sin within as the 
only means of saving him from it in his social or prac- 
tical life, and therefore it has no provision for saving 
man from sin in his social and practical life as a 
means of bringing the soul, or inward man, with his 
"will to do" and his faculty to believe, into saved re- 



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lations with God? And it is evident that man can 
alone please God by the citizen exercise of these fac- 
ulties. And there is only one way by which a sinner 
can recover his Cradle citizenship, and that is by spirit- 
ual birth into the kingdom of heaven. The child itself 
recovered its citizenship, thereby bringing it to Christ, 
by the unconditional atonement birth of the spirit or 
undisabled inward man out of his moral incarcera- 
tion in the dethroned and thereby totally disabled out- 
ward man and at the same time enthroned him there- 
over in recovered citizenship to take him to the grave 
of his dethronement in coerced innocence by offering 
him "a living sacrifice" in meeting the practical condi- 
tions of this Cradle-redeemed life. Therefore when 
man goes out of this way of redeemed life, which rein- 
carcerates the inward man in the disabled outward 
man, a rebirth of the inward man thereout is required 
to recover his citizenship in the Cradle kingdom of 
heaven. This is the source of spiritual life (this birth 
of the spirit) in human redemption, as Christ taught 
Nicodemus when he said unto him : "Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, Except a man [not a child, for he quali- 
fies the term man by an article and therefore does not 
include the child, as it is not employed in its generic 
sense] be born again [a second birth of the spirit out 
of the disabled outward man to that of his uncondi- 
tional atonement birth thereout], he cannot see the 
kingdom of God." (John iii. 3.) This spiritual birth, 
or birth of the spirit out of the disabled outward man, 
does not only recover the citizenship, but also recovers 
the childship of God, thereby becoming his recovered 
children. ''My people [Cradle-redeemed people] are 



^2 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast 
rejected knowledge, I will reject thee." (Hos. iv. 6.) 
''Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly 
afraid, be very desolate, saith the Lord. For my 
people have committed two evils; they have forsaken 
me the fountain of living waters [Cradle redemption] 
and hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can 
hold no water." (Jer. ii. 12, 13.) God reigns from 
the center, even in a drop of water, to the circumfer- 
ence, and never from the circumference to the center ; 
from within without, and never from without within; 
and life is within and never without; and, although 
growth in life is by accretion, it is never effected from 
without, but always from within. While dethroned 
man, under the delusion of "the mystery of iniquity," 
persists in reversing this divine order of government 
and of life, especially so in the use of God's atone- 
ment plan to save him from his personal sins and then 
to direct him in holiness through practical life. There- 
fore he "rejects" the "knowledge" of conviction for 
sin by the personal agency of the Holy Ghost in the use 
of God's word faithfully preached and which is the 
realized [life asserting itself within] earnest of "the 
wrath to come" and then of repentance that breaks 
the heart loose from its sins and starts the sinner in 
the fear of God fleeing the wrath to come by laying 
hold upon the hope set before him in the gospel, of 
regeneration by faith acceptance of "the free gift" of 
absolution for his sins, which "creates him in Christ 
Jesus unto good works that God hath before ordained 
[in his baptismal vow of obedience], that he should 
walk in to the end," and has substituted for this 



The European War and Its Crowning Result, 73 

knowledge of salvation from sin within and without 
that of moral suasion, followed by reformation as 
a means of saving his soul from sin and as a means 
of correcting the fearful disorder that prevails in the 
social or political life of the world. God can but re- 
ject these improvised means and those that employ 
them; for they are utterly futile, being the work of 
"the mystery of iniquity" to take Christ out of his 
atonement plan to save man from under the garden 
law in the sentence of physical death in total disability 
in the social faculty of his moral being to secure his 
execution, as a citizen cannot be executed by law, 
and therefore through this moral relation in kind with 
the devil "he leads man captive at his will" ; and hence 
the crime, the ruin, the death that prevail in "this 
present evil world" under his abnormal reign as its God 
and this moral relation of man to the devil, and the 
legitimate result thereof will continue until this disa- 
bility of man is removed and which can and only will 
be done in the millennium resurrection of God's peo- 
ple and by the change that will then take place in those 
of them that are alive at that time, which will wrest 
the government of the world from the devil and en- 
throne Christ as a redemptive fact in his millennial 
reign, during which the devil will be chained, so that 
he deceives "the nations no more until the thousand 
years are fulfilled." When this period of rest from 
his intrigues ends, he will be banished, with all of his 
angels or citizens of his abnormal kingdom, "to a place 
prepared for them" when the world will be restored 
to its pristine state and Christ enthroned thereover 
under God's thereby reestablished kingdom on earth 



74 ^^^ European War and Its Crozvning Result. 

in its original order. If this is not redemption, literal 
and complete, for Adam's dethroned house, what is it ? 
"For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be 
[on earth] : yea, thou shalt diligently consider his 
place, and it shall not be [found on earth]. But the 
meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight them- 
selves with the abundance of peace [this is the peace 
that God's people should now be praying for] .... 
The righteous [Abraham's seed after him] shall in- 
herit the land [Adam's world redeemed beyond the 
grave of his dethronement, that God promised to Ab- 
raham and that he died without receiving], and dwell 
therein forever [their everlasting possession]." (Ps. 
xxxvii. lo, II, 29.) If the wise of Christ's Church, 
who are supposed to know of his near coming, should 
be engaged in trimming their lamps that have gone 
out while they have slept (which Paul has exhorted 
them not to do) on their watch for the coming of 
Christ, should not the unwise in the Church be dili- 
gently employed in getting oil for their lamps of pro- 
fession that have also gone out while they have slept 
on their watch for the coming of Christ, since they 
took no oil with them when they set out in the Chris- 
tian life to meet the Bridegroom? 

Now let us hear what Christ says on the physical 
and social conditions of the world at his coming, and 
also hear him on a specific sign of his near approach : 
''And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see 
that ye be not troubled: for all of these things must 
come to pass [as an inevitable result of man's de- 
thronement under the delusion of "the mystery of 
iniquity" that promised him the wisdom of the gods 



The European War and Its Crowning Result. 75 

as the reward for his transgression of the garden law 
and thereby dethroned him and enthroned the devil 
god over him in "the mystery of this iniquity" ; and 
man, under his abnormal reign, is still seeking the wis- 
dom of the gods at the expense of law, which was 
supposed to secure him against dethronement, and 
therefore his contention for his throne of the world 
at the destruction of those that oppose it], but the 
end is not yet [of this delusion and of its contending 
governments for supremacy]. For nation shall rise 
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and 
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earth- 
quakes, in divers places. [The Saviour here puts 
these physical disturbances as abnormal, which are 
certainly true, they being the result of the devil's ab- 
normal reign in the sense and social world.] i\ll of 
these are the beginning of sorrows [not the end of 
sorrows, not the beating of the "swords into plow- 
shares, and the spears into pruninghooks, when men 
shall learn war no more," but instead these wars and 
rumors of wars are but vedette skirmishes marshaling 
earth's millions upon her extended plain with the most 
improved instruments of destruction for the great de- 
cisive battle for world supremacy in the dethroned 
conditions of its life, "the mystery of iniquity" having 
finally taken Christ out of his gospel method of pre- 
venting it by his enthronement in Adam's stead under 
God's sovereign reign in the spiritual department of 
his government thereby recovered on earth and which 
as an inevitable reveals "the man of sin, the son of 
perdition, that Wicked" in his ascent upon the throne 
of reorganized Imperial Rome]." 



76 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

This will be the condition of the social life of the 
world when Christ comes to establish his Adamic 
kingdom in the millennial rest, which is God's crea- 
tion rest to be enjoyed by the redeemed during the 
devil's chained and bottomless pit banishment, as his 
reign extends through it as it did through the six 
work periods of the creation, and into which Adam 
would have entered as the result of his tested loyalty 
as the king of the world in the human department of 
God's government of it, in conjunction with him in 
its spiritual or divine department; but, failing, the 
atonement was at once instituted in the promise that 
''the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's 
head" or counteract his head device by which he de- 
throned Adam in his own enthronement in Adam's 
stead and which was completed in atonement provi- 
sion in Christ's resurrection out of Adam's grave of 
dethronement. This atonement provision, with its 
gospel, extends from the giving of this promise to 
Adam through the six working periods of the cre- 
ation and ends with the work of ''the mystery of 
iniquity" in taking Christ out of this way of recover- 
ing, as a redemptive fact, Adam's throne of the world 
under God's sovereign reign in its spiritual life, and 
which as a redemptive necessity inaugurates the cre- 
ation rest period under Christ's personal reign in 
Adam's stead, thereby recovering it as a redemptive 
fact under God's government on earth in its original 
order, and which necessitates the destruction and re- 
moval of the government of the earth, as it "will fill 
the whole world," and also necessitates the resurrec- 
tion of God's people out of the grave of Adam's de- 



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thronement, that its "gates prevail not against" Christ's 
"Church" in its millennium estabHshment ; and God's 
people that are alive must be changed by removing 
their outward man disability, thereby recovering their 
citizenship in the social department of God's govern- 
ment on earth, itself also restored to its original order, 
and which was arrested to secure man's execution in 
this faculty of his moral being, as a citizen cannot be 
executed by law. Thus all of God's people will enter 
into the creation rest with Christ as he did by his 
resurrection enter into his rest from the work of re- 
demption, and which recovers the creation rest that 
Adam forfeited to his dethroned house and which is 
a rest from the presence and intrigues of the devil and 
consequent evils. 

Let us observe here that, if the chronology of the 
Bible creation is not confounded with that of the rock 
record creations that were employed by the Creator 
in building up the earth with their respective vegetable 
and animal deposits for the Bible creation, which was 
that of providing it with vegetables and animals for 
the use of man, its prospective king, six thousand 
years was ample time for its accomplishment and 
which was largely required to reproduce vegetables 
and animals to replenish the earth from their respec- 
tive reproductive agents of direct creation, and which 
could not under the inexorable reign of the great law 
of individuality — that is, an emanation from the Un- 
originated Divine Existence — have exceeded a male that 
carried the existence of his species and a female made 
out of him, and thereby brought conjointly with him 
into that existence for its reproduction in their off- 



yS The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

spring, and which brought two individuals into that 
existence by direct creation, with two distinct spheres 
of operation, and that without infringing the great law 
of individuality ; and their offspring, which is a repro- 
duction of the existence that they conjointly carry, 
brings a third individual into it with a distinct sphere 
of operation, which is a creation fact expression of 
the Holy Trinity or of the three persons conjointly in 
the Unoriginated Divine Existence as its Creator pro- 
totype. And if there is any other creation prototype 
in the vegetable and animal kingdoms than that of the 
Holy Trinity, I have been unable to find it, which 
assures me that this Creator did not employ interme- 
diate agency of any kind whatever in effecting their 
creation; for, if otherwise, that agency would have 
been expressed in fact in the creation, like begetting 
like. 

Paul disclosed this philosophy of the creation when 
he said: "For the invisible things of him from the 
creation of the world are clearly seen, being under- 
stood by the things that are made, even his eternal 
power and Godhead ; so that they [heathen world] are 
without excuse [that is, for their ignorance of a Tri- 
une Creator of nature in which nothing lives that has 
not three elements or functions of existence]." (Rom. 
i. 20.) 

With these statements, the truth of which is read- 
ily seen to be established in the philosophy of the cre- 
ation, we are prepared to see the correctness of the 
account that Moses has given to the world of the cre- 
ation of man in the image of God, the Holy Trinity, 
having three coordinate moral faculties, the fact ex- 



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pression of the three persons in the divine existence, 
like begetting like, and then breathing into his nostrils 
the breath of life, and he became a living soul. And 
we can also understand that the truth of the account 
that Moses has given to the world of the creation of 
woman from a rib that the Lord God had taken from 
the side of man, who carried all of the human exist- 
ence in his own person, is established in the profound- 
est philosophy, and which made procreative nature pos- 
sible. And we may also understand Moses when he 
said: "These are the generations of the heavens and 
of the earth [Bible heavens and earth] when they 
were created, in the day [it may be that a thousand years 
were employed in making the vegetable and animal 
kingdoms] that the Lord God made the earth and the 
heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in 
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew 
[just as he made Adam of the dust of the ground 
before he lived, though he had all of life's organized 
functions] : for the Lord God had not caused it to 
rain upon the earth [it was a dusty earth, with mate- 
rial to create, but without moisture to grow anything: 
and then growth requires functions, and function re- 
quires organization, so that the Lord God did not 
commission the earth to grow the vegetable kingdom 
into existence, much less to grow the animal kingdom 
into existence]." (Gen. ii. 4, 5.) 

And when the earth was peopled with vegetables 
and animals and the mineral kingdom was complete, 
''the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground," 
to establish relation in kind between him and the world 
for his kingly domain, and made woman from his side 



8o The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

to establish relation in kind with him through which 
she could be his helpmeet and also to bring her con- 
jointly with him into the human existence, that she 
might be "the mother of all living" or of the human 
family, and which precludes the possibility of created 
pre-Adamites or of pro-Adamites, as for that matter. 
The making of the female out of the male — that, of 
necessity, carried all of the conditions of the existence 
that he represented, as did Adam all of the human 
existence, for instance — is mentioned only in the mak- 
ing of Eve out of Adam, because they were the king 
and queen of creation. It would have been unfit to 
have thus distinguished the monkey existence even ; but 
reason is very clear in its decision that all, both in 
the vegetable and in the animal kingdoms, from the 
smallest to the largest species, were made in the same 
way and that life was breathed into them after their 
functional organisms were complete, as all alike die 
when it is breathed out. This evident philosophy of 
the creation of vegetable and animal life in nature will 
neither admit of essential change in species nor of a 
possible duplicate. Adam understood this and there- 
fore called woman, that was made out of him. Eve, 
she being the potential "mother of all" of the human 
family. Adam being the embodiment of the human 
existence, how was it possible to create another human 
existence? And Eve being made out of him to bring 
her conjointly with him in that existence to perpetuate 
it in their offspring, how could there be another father 
and mother of the human family, either in part or in 
whole? Adam knew this and proclaimed it to his 
children, or rather for them, before Eve was blessed 



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with a child; but his children, who feel that they are 
an improvement of the humanity that he and Eve 
embodied conjointly, fail to see its profound philos- 
ophy. 

Now let us hear Christ in giving, immediately after 
his disclosure of the above social condition of the world 
life at his appearing, the most specific and well-defined 
sign of his coming to establish his millennial reign 
that has been given by any one and which is this: 
''And this gospel of the kingdom [of God's kingdom 
recovered on earth in atonement provision from its 
disestablishment by Adam's dethronement] shall be 
preached in all the world for a witness unto all na- 
tions [that is, for a witness that it is Christ's right by 
birth, he being the Birthright Prince of Adam's de- 
throned house, and also that it is his right by atone- 
ment provision to reign in the sense and social life of 
the world in Adam's stead in conjunction with God 
the Father and God the Holy Ghost's sovereign reign 
in its spiritual life], then the end shall come [that is, 
of the gospel dispensation and also of the govern- 
ments of the world that have been established by "the 
mystery of iniquity" in taking Christ out of the way 
of recovering Adam's throne through its provisions, 
by recovering their citizens therein that had gone out 
of it by leaving the Cradle in wicked instead of good 
works, for the Cradle is this kingdom in its universal- 
ity this side of the grave of Adam's dethronement]." 

We should observe that when Pilate asked Christ, 

"Art thou a king, then?" Christ replied by saying: 

"Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I 

born [in Adam's dethroned house, of course, thereby 

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82 The European War and Its Crozvning Result. 

being its Birthright Prince], and for this cause came I 
into the world, to bear witness to the truth [that is, to 
the truth that Pilate had declared]." Then Christ's 
mission to Adam's dethroned w^orld as he understood 
it was that of becoming, when he had wrested Adam's 
throne from the devil, its "second Adam," or Redeem- 
er King. In what else could Christ's mission to 
Adam's dethroned world as its Birthright Prince Heir 
have been accomplished except in that of enthroning 
himself in Adam's stead by saving his house from 
under the garden law, thereby wresting Adam's throne 
from under the devil's abnormal reign, thus reestab- 
lishing God's government on earth in its original or- 
der? And then is not this redemption for Adam's 
dethroned house established in its philosophy, where 
all truth is established? 

Now the all-important question is. Has "the gospel 
of this kingdom" of God that is to be established after 
destroying earth's governments been "preached to all 
of the world for a witness to every nation," that it is 
Christ's right to reign "Lord of lords and King of 
kings" in Adam's world, whose throne as its Birth- 
right Prince he has recovered in atonement provision ? 
To answer this question it will be necessary to ascer- 
tain what is required to preach the gospel for a witness 
to every nation of the world. It is certainly not re- 
quired that it should be preached to every citizen of 
every nation. Then what is required is that it be 
preached in the capital of all the nations of the world. 
And this has been done except to that of Tibet, and it 
may be that it has been preached there also. Persist- 
ent efforts, both by women and men, were made 



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many years ago to preach the gospel at the capital of 
Tibet, but they were brought out of the nation without 
accomplishing it. But during the Russo-Japanese War 
England sent an armed expedition into the capital of 
Tibet; and the lama, the chief ecclesiastic, left the 
temple, believing it had thereby been desecrated; and 
China after this exercised some authority over the 
public schools of Tibet. But whether or not this 
opened the capital of Tibet for the preaching of the 
gospel, I have not been informed; but it is highly 
probable that it did, and, if so, then the gospel may 
have been preached to Tibet as a nation. 

But whether or not we are capable of correctly in- 
terpreting this or any other sign of Christ's near com- 
ing, of one thing we are assured, and that is that Im- 
perial Rome will be reorganized under its "eighth 
head," or form, of government and that it will be the 
result of a devastating war in Europe and that its 
sovereign will be "the man of sin, the son of perdi- 
tion, that Wicked, whom the Lord will consume with 
the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the bright- 
ness of his coming," and that at this time "the God of 
heaven" — not "the God of this present evil world" — 
will set up a kingdom or reestablish his kingdom of the 
world that Adam's dethronement disestablished at the 
instance of the devil, which as an inevitable enthroned 
him God in Adam's department of it, and that this 
"kingdom shall break in pieces" and remove all of 
earth's governments and then "fill the whole world, 
and shall never be destroyed." And certainly the wise, 
or God's people, when these prophetic things, these 
tremendous things, are transpiring, such as the mighty 



84 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

upheaval in Europe is becoming, that has put a whole 
nation on the charity list, and the very nation that one 
of the contending powers declares it has entered the 
war to protect, and yet it has become necessary for 
neutral nations to care for its homeless and starving 
ones, will see in them the fulfillment of prophecy and 
begin to "trim their lamps that have gone out while 
they have slept" on this great truth of the coming of 
their Lord to establish his kingdom on earth and be 
"God with us" instead of watching, as he has cautioned 
them to do. And that the Church of to-day is asleep 
or unaccountably indiflferent with regard to Christ's 
coming and with no well-defined understanding of the 
condition of the social life of the world that makes it 
necessary for him to come to establish his kingdom in 
his millennial reign in Adam's stead, and of the na- 
ture of his kingdom and where he will establish it and 
of the nature of its establishment, is unquestionable. 
And how can it be ready for Christ's coming with his 
kingdom for its millennium establishment is by no 
means clear, to say the least of it. And is not this the 
nature of the watching for the coming of Christ that 
he has advised, yea, has cautioned his Church to do 
and thereby keep the world fully advised of the cer- 
tainty and also of the character of this great redemp- 
tive event that will efifect such radical and monstrous 
changes in the world's life ? And none will doubt that 
this coming event in the world's redemption would 
exert a tremendous influence upon the life of the 
Church and also upon the life of the world if it were 
proclaimed as it is taught in the Bible and established 
in the philosophy of the atonement redemption of 



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Adam's dethroned house. But with the vague impres- 
sions of the Church with regard to the character of 
Christ's coming and its unaccountable indifference 
about it, to say nothing about its unreasonable views 
of it, it can exert no saving influence either upon the 
life of the Church or upon the life of the world, and 
which is therefore a very unwise thing for the children 
of light to do. 

"But when they [the unwise] shall say. Peace and 
safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as 
travail cometh upon a woman with child; and they 
shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in dark- 
ness, that that day [coming of Christ] should come 
upon you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, 
and the children of the day : we are not of the night, 
nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep [over 
Christ's coming], as do others; but let us watch and 
be sober." (i Thess. v. 3-6.) 

Now, in concluding let us observe that, when "the 
prince of the covenant" becomes the sovereign of re- 
organized Rome and makes "a covenant for one week 
with" the Jews that are in Palestine, which fulfills, or 
rather reinstates for fulfillment, the "seventy weeks 
determined upon" Daniel's "people, and upon the holy 
city," and in which the work of the gospel redemp- 
tion was to be finished, the new covenant gospel exile 
of Abraham's covenant house from Palestine, their 
redemptive earnest of Adam's world redeemed beyond 
the grave of his dethronement, will end ; for "the full- 
ness of the Gentiles has" now "come in," their "sea- 
son" of fruitfulness has closed, and therefore they will 
go into eternal exile from Adam's world redeemed, 



86 The European War and Its Crozuning Result. 

and the Jews will now offer sacrifices in Jerusalem, 
as was their custom before they went into exile, 
because Christ took his kingdom from them and gave 
it to the Gentiles to secure its spiritual fruitage, and 
"in the midst of the week that Wicked shall cause 
the sacrifices and oblations to cease" and ''will set 
himself up in the temple, showing that he is God." 
Then commences his persecution of God's people, 
in which the Jews will share, and during this per- 
secution the remnant of adult Israel will be saved 
under the new covenant gospel, and which is "one 
hundred and forty-four thousand." They will at once 
enter with Christ into his millennial rest of a thou- 
sand years, and Palestine will be their "everlasting 
possession," and its deserts south and east of the 
Euphrates "will blossom as the rose," and its seas on 
the east and on the west will become plains for agri- 
cultural purposes, and the three rivers, maybe two, that 
headed on the west in the Lebanon mountains will ap- 
pear and drain the vast plain that is now occupied by 
the Mediterranean Sea, thereby recovering the land 
of Eden, Adam's judicial district of the world, and 
which God gave to Abraham as the redemptive earnest 
of Adam's world redeemed beyond the grave of his 
dethronement. This will, therefore, be the land that 
Abraham's natural seed will possess and which will 
be divided into twelve tribal districts or nations and 
over which the twelve apostles will be enthroned, re- 
spectively, as kings, "judging the twelve tribes of Is- 
rael." Here the apostle "shall sit at" Christ's royal 
"table and eat and drink in" Christ's Adamic "king- 
dom" in his palace on "'Mount Zion," where Adam 



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was dethroned in his Garden Home Capital of the 
world in conjunction with God in his sovereign 
reign in its spiritual life. And, therefore, it is now 
the redeemed "city of God, the joy of the whole 
earth," the Capital of God's reestablished kingdom 
on earth by Christ's enthronement therein in Ad- 
am's stead in conjunction with God the Father and 
God the Holy Ghost in its spiritual department. This 
is Adam's throne recovered and his house redeemed 
under God's original kingdom on earth, thereby itself 
recovered and reestablished in the pristine conditions 
of the world's life, a literal and com.plete redemption, 
with its truth established in its philosophy or in its 
fitness where the truth is alone discovered and estab- 
lished ; for it is, abstractly speaking, the eternal fitness 
of things. 

This is the kingdom of heaven which Paul said 
"flesh and blood shall not inherit." This is true be- 
cause the blood and its life of the physical or king man 
was forfeited to the Garden law by Adam's dethrone- 
ment in this faculty of his moral being, and which 
Christ gave to it on the cross, which satisfied it and, 
of course, "reconciled God to the world." This as an 
inevitable put Christ in Adam's grave of dethronement 
with "flesh and bones," less the blood and its physical 
life. And he therefore "quickened" this body or phys- 
ical man of "flesh and bones" by the "spirit" or un- 
disabled inward man that brought the disabled outward 
or physical man to the cross in coerced innocence by 
oflFering him "a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable 
unto God," and thereby raised it (him) a "spiritual 
body," or with a body that is supplied with life by the 



88 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

spirit of undisabled inward man, and which "saved" 
man ''from under" the executed penalty of "the law," 
and for which Christ "was made under the law," being 
born of a woman." This resurrection body or phys- 
ical man of Christ is the only fact expression of the 
truth that Christ did bruise the serpent's head by giv- 
ing to the Garden law the life of the physical man of 
dethroned humanity that Adam forfeited to it by the 
head device of the serpent, thereby counteracting it. 
But for the disclosure of this fact by Christ to his 
disciples after his resurrection and by Paul in the 
above verse, there would have been no means this side 
of the grave of Adam's dethronement by the forfeit- 
ure of this life by which we could have known that 
Christ did satisfy the garden law on the cross by giving 
to it this life and then raised up the physical man by 
substituting for it the life of the undisabled inward 
man of dethroned humanity, thus disclosing also the 
philosophy of the resurrection, which secures to us 
the literal resurrection of the physical man less his 
blood and its life, and which in turn discloses in a very 
delicate and striking manner the awful truth that that 
which is forfeited to law can never be recovered to 
its normal conditions or relations of its existence. 
Therefore, if Adam's body or physical faculty of his 
moral being had been forfeited under the garden law 
in his dethronement in this faculty, it could never have 
been resurrected, and he would have been lost forever 
in a dismembered moral being, and all of his family 
that fail under the atonement or soul probation to 
reach Adam's grave in the coerced innocence of the 
outward or physical man by the undisabled inward 



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man with his "will to do" and his faculty to believe, 
offering him "a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto 
God," and which is that "holiness without which no 
man shall see the Lord" in the redeemed state, will be 
held under the law in total disability or in the abnor- 
mal conditions of their moral existence forever, and 
which will be literal and complete, with nothing nor- 
mal whatever. This state and its environments Christ 
compared to "a lake of fire and brimstone" ; and it is 
from this state and place that Christ saves them finally 
that cooperate with him in his atonement plan for its 
accomplishment, and it is a "great salvation" because 
it saves man from a commensurately great ruin and 
completes its work at the grave, of course. The sin- 
ner's chief and constant concern should be his salva- 
tion from his personal sins, which secures his uncon- 
ditional atonement provision from its Adamic effects 
and therefore determines the character of his salvation 
both in quality and in quantity, it being impossible for 
a saved state to rise above the normal conditions of its 
lost state. Adam's dethronement, for instance, by his 
transgression of the normal conditions of his moral 
existence lost him inevitably in its abnormal condi- 
tions and lost him also in an abnormal relation to his 
kingly inheritance or environments, and his salvation 
by Christ, the Birthright Prince of his dethroned 
house, recovered him and it to their normal state and 
relation to each other, one being the prevision and the 
other the provision, and which is salvation for Adam 
and his dethroned house, nothing more and nothing 
less, the one being the measure of the other. This 
salvation must be followed by good works or right- 



90 The European War and Its Crowning Result. 

eousness to the grave of Adam's dethronement to 
make it a final success beyond it in Adam's world there 
redeemed. 

The belief, therefore, that seems to be quite preva- 
lent — that is, that the sinner when he is saved from 
his personal sins is saved to a higher state than that to 
which he was lost in his sins, and hence that his chief 
concern in seeking salvation from his personal sins 
should be about the state in which he is thereby recov- 
ered and not about his escape from his state of ruin in 
his sins under the new covenant probation to secure 
his final salvation in the rest that remains for these 
faith- justified people of God by his working it ''out in 
fear and trembling" while "God works in" him "both 
to will and to do of his good pleasure" in its accom- 
plishment — is seen to be without Biblical or logical 
support. 

If this theory of salvation from personal sins is trCie, 
then the atonement plan to efifect it by alarming the 
sinner's "fear of God" in "the wrath to come," and 
which the Word of God declares to be "the beginning 
of wisdom" or where the sinner begins the right use 
of the atonement provision to save him from the 
wrath to come in laying "hold of the hope set before" 
him "in the gospel" — in a special message — of regener- 
ation as the only means of his escaping the wrath to 
come, and which should by all means be disclosed in 
that message, is seen to be nonsense at a tremendous 
cost instead of the profound philosophy of salvation 
from sin that it is and that it has proved itself to be 
in every case when its provisions therefor have been 
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"The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a 
dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my 
word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? 
saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire? saith 
the Lord." That is, as fire is employed to separate the 
dross from metal and thereby refine it, and which must 
be intensely hot, so God's Word, when focalized with 
intent, brings the sinner, under the enlightenment of 
the Holy Ghost, to a realization of the wrath to come 
in his conviction for his personal sins, which makes 
him cry out for salvation from them, as did the Psalm- 
ist when he said: 'The sorrows of death compassed 
me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found 
trouble and sorrow. "Then called I tipon the Lord; 
O Lord, I beseech thee to deliver my soul." And 
again when he said : 'T waited patiently for the Lord ; 
and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought 
me up out of an horrible pit [inward man birth out of 
his moral imprisonment in the totally disabled outward 
man], out of the miry clay [transgressed relations], 
and set my feet upon a rock [in right relations], and 
[thereby] established my goings [made it possible for 
him to go in good works by the delivered inward man 
offering the disabled outward or practical man "a liv- 
ing sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God" in meeting 
the practical conditions of probationary redeemed life] . 
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise 
unto our God [for his deliverance from the horrible 
pit of miry clay, where every effort he made sank him 
lower, as it could only advance him in wrong rela- 
tions] : many shall see it [his deliverance made evident 
by his song of praise to God, which, of course, is new], 



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and fear [this horrible pit thus made manifest], and 
shall trust in the Lord [ for their deliverance also from 
the horrible pit of disabiHty in the flesh or outward 
man and to which their inward men are sowing and 
reaping]." And as did Paul also when he said: "O 
wretched man that I am [imprisoned inward man in 
the body of disability] ! who shall deliver me [inward 
man] from the body of this death [disability death, 
being under the sentence of physical death to secure 
man's execution, as a citizen cannot be executed by 
law] ? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord 
[that is, for the birth of his awakened and convicted 
inward rnan out of this reincarceration in the disabled 
outward man by sowing to or obeying his lusts]. So 
then with the mind [delivered inward man with his 
"will to do" and his faculty to believe] I myself [entire 
man] serve the law of God [by the inward man offering 
the disabled outward or practical man "a. living sacrifice 
wholly acceptable unto the Lord, which is his reasonable 
service," having been delivered thereout and enthroned 
thereover for this purpose] ; but with the flesh [or 
"body of this death"] the law of sin [disability]." 
"But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut 
up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and 
I could not stay [that is, in the relations that he was 
thereby informed that he was in danger]." (Jer. xx. 
9.) "Is not my \vord like as a fire? saith the Lord; 
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" 
(Jer. xxiii. 29.) The rock mason to break the rock 
must strike with his hammer in the same place with 
the purpose of breaking it, otherwise he would not 
accomplish it; and if the preacher succeeds in break- 



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ing the sinner's heart in contrition for his sins, there- 
by detaching it from its sinful alHances by the use of 
of God's Word, he must strike in the same place 
with the specific design of effecting it by disclosing 
to him his imminent danger is sin, that the Holy 
Ghost may employ it as his sword with which to 
pierce the incrustation that sin has formed around 
the heart and let this faithful message in, that it may 
give him light, that he may "behold wondrous things 
out of God's law." This was Peter's method on the 
day of Pentecost of securing the conviction of his vast 
audience; and Paul, who was specially commissioned 
by his Saviour ''to open the eyes of the Gentiles, and 
to turn them from darkness to light, and from the 
power of Satan unto God, that they may receive for- 
giveness of sins, and inheritance among them that are 
sanctified by faith that is in Christ," taught that this 
was his method of accomplishing this result when in 
his defense before Agrippa he said: "Whereupon, O 
king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly 
vision : but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and 
at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, 
and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and 
turn to God, and do works meet for repentance." 
(Acts xxvi. 18-20.) 

But, alas ! this gospel is not preached to-day. Moral 
suasion has been substituted for conviction and re- 
pentance, and the reformation thereby effected has been 
substituted for regeneration by faith acceptance of the 
free gift of absolution for sin. "The mystery of in- 
iquity" has taken Christ "out of" this atonement 
"way" or method of saving the sinner from his per- 



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sonal sins. I have not heard in twenty years a ser- 
mon on repentance as the first and indispensable con- 
dition on the part of the sinner to secure his regener- 
ation finally by his faith acceptance of the free gift of 
the forgiveness of his sins. And I feel safe in saying 
that I have not heard repentance mentioned in a ser- 
mon in ten years. How strange this seems when we 
remember that Paul, among other things, said to the 
elders of Ephesus, where he had preached for three 
years and a half, "How I kept back nothing that was 
profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have 
taught you publicly, and from house to house, testify- 
ing both to the Jews, and to the Greeks, repentance 
toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ" ! 
(Acts XX. 20, 21.) And stranger still, if possible, 
that repentance should be left out of the gospel mes- 
sage to the sinner in an effort to save him from his 
personal sins, when we consider what the college of 
apostles said when they had heard Peter tell of the 
regeneration of the Gentiles: "Then hath God also 
to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." And 
when John the Baptist entered upon his mission of 
making man's part of the new covenant conjointly 
with Christ, who made God's part of it, with the proc- 
lamation: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at 
hand." And when Christ by his inward man tempta- 
tion victory over the devil through the disabled out- 
ward man delivered the inward man of dethroned 
humanity from his moral imprisonment in the outward 
man thereof and enthroned him thereover in recovered 
citizenship in the spiritual department of God's king- 
dom thereby recovered on earth in atonement provi- 



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sion, which took away the inward man imprisoned sin 
of disabiHty and which put the law in the heart of 
dethroned humanity and thereby established its goings 
in good works from the Cradle to the grave of Adam's 
dethronement preached from that time. "Repent, for 
the kingdom of heaven is at hand," Matthew says. 
Then the new Covenant and its Gospel were born in 
repentance, or, in other words, were made possible by 
"granting repentance" to the sinner. And yet, by the 
authority of "the mystery of iniquity," this vital atone- 
ment provision to save man from his personal sins 
has been substituted by moral suasion, and regenera- 
tion, made possible by repentance, is substituted by 
reformation ; and no wonder that "the fullness of the 
Gentiles" is fast coming in, having ceased to adminis- 
ter the atonement provisions by which it is alone pos- 
sible for them to "bring forth" the spiritual "fruit" of 
Christ's kingdom, that he took away from Abraham's 
covenant house and gave it to them to secure. 

And then there is no truth more clearly defined and 
better sustained than is the truth that moral beings, 
when once estranged, can be reconciled only by re- 
pentance on the part of the offender, as otherwise the 
offended would have to indorse the offender in his sin 
of offense and thereby become his accomplice and at 
the same time confirm him in his crime instead of sav- 
ing him from it in effecting by his repentance his for- 
giveness. When Adam transgressed the garden law 
in his dethronement he offended God the lawgiver, and 
that offense was expressed in Adam's disability under 
it, not subject to it; neither could be until this disabil- 
ity was provided for by God, of course, nor could God 



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become otherwise reconciled to him. Therefore 
Christ, the first-born of Adam's dethroned house, and 
that by conception and birth from the virgin, though 
dethroned, womb of humanity, which was effected by 
special creation, thereby making Christ "the only- 
begotten Son of God" and also making him the Birth- 
right Prince of Adam's dethroned house, in his inward 
man temptation victory over the devil through the dis- 
abled outward man delivered as an inevitable the un- 
disabled inward man of dethroned humanity, with his 
"will to do" and his faculty to believe, from his moral 
imprisonment in the disabled outward man and en- 
throned him thereover, took away this disabling sin of 
the world and thereby established the law, which 
again as an inevitable "reconciled God to the world," 
not, however, by indorsing Adam's offense, but instead 
by granting to him repentance as the only means of 
effecting at-one-ment with him again. And hence the 
special mission of God's ministers is to get the sinner 
reconciled to God by repenting of his sins; for God 
has become reconciled to him in the establishment of 
his law, which granted to him repentance and by no 
means in the abolition of his law, for it is thereby in 
force again, man's disability being provided for. And 
therefore "God now commands all men everywhere to 
repent." And yet his ministers are not praying the 
sinner to be reconciled to God by repenting of his 
sins, although Paul says : "We are ambassadors for 
Christ, as though God did beseech you by us : we pray 
you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." And 
how can the sinner be reconciled to God except by 
obeying his command to repent? And it is just as 



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indispensable in our forgiving those who wrong us 
that they should repent of the wrong that they have 
done to have our hearts beat in unison with each 
other again as it is for the sinner to repent of his 
sins to become reconciled to God, as otherwise we 
would confound virtue and vice, and therefore 
Christian character could not be developed for the 
simple reason that the Christian would in that event 
indorse his offender. To prevent this, Christ said 
to his disciples: "Take heed to yourselves [that is, 
be careful in forgiving their offender, lest they in- 
dorse him in his sin of offense] : If any brother 
trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, 
forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven 
times in a day, and seven times turn again to thee, 
saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him." (Luke xvii. 
3, 4.) God's people, not observing this rule strictly 
and having become possessed of the impression that 
they can and therefore must forgive those that have 
trespassed against them without their repentance, the 
line of demarcation between vice and virtue is not as 
clear cut as it should be in order to the development of 
strong character, to say nothing about its protection 
against the inroads of vice. To withhold forgiveness 
for wrongs done and to entertain feeling of revenge 
therefor are two things widely different; for revenge 
does not belong to man, but instead it ''belongeth unto 
God, and he will repay." But it is man's province, 
yea, his duty, to forgive as God forgives and in no 
other way — that is, when the offender repents, as 
otherwise he would confirm the offender in his of- 
fense or sin and thereby become his accomplice, though 
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it be his own child. And does not reason unequivocal- 
ly decide that this is equally true of God? It is for 
this reason that God chastises his children, to bring 
them to repentance for their wrongdoing and thereby 
save them from their sin and maintain his authority 
instead of overlooking it and thus becoming an ac- 
complice with them and thereby confirming them in 
their sin. With this decision of reason indorsed by 
the philosophy of the atonement for the forgive- 
ness of personal sins, it may be very readily seen 
that the belief that has substituted moral suasion 
for repentance as a means of securing a justified rela- 
tion with God can but prove a signal, yea, a fatal 
failure. And another belief that is close kin to this 
fatal error, and which is quite prevalent to-day, is that 
all men are the children of God, and which is capable 
of such tremendous results in the destruction of men 
in sin that I feel called upon to disclose its error and 
bring the world to see it if possible. 

That childship inheres in relation in kind, there can 
be no reasonable doubt, for otherwise like would not 
beget like. Then it follows as an inevitable that the 
sinner, though the creature of God, is not his child, for 
the simple reason that the moral, or character, relation 
in kind with God has been commuted in a sin or re- 
bellious character relation with the devil, the author of 
this character, and has thereby become the child of the 
devil. Therefore Christ said to the Pharisees who 
said that they were the children of Abraham : "Ye are 
of your father, the devil, and his lusts ye will do." 
The Saviour ''came unto his own" according to the 
flesh, or blood, relation in kind, "and his own received 



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him not. But to as many as received him, to them gave 
he power to become the sons of God, even to them 
that beHeve on his name: which were born, not of 
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of 
man, but of God," and are therefore his atonement- 
recovered children from the devil, and which was ef- 
fected by the birth of the undisabled inward man with 
his "will to do" and his faculty to believe, out of his 
reincarceration in the totally disabled outward man 
by gratifying his lusts, and in which he was, of course, 
in character in kind with the devil, and therefore his 
child. And where is the mystery about it? Does 
not the action of a moral being reverse his relations, 
making the positive both negative and positive? And 
how could it be otherwise? The transgression of 
every law by a moral being has this dual effect upon 
him. Indeed, nothing can move or be moved without 
these dual results. Relation in kind makes the exer- 
cise of force of every character and the reign of law 
of every kind possible and determines the nature and 
gives direction and application to all results, both in 
the physical and spiritual world, and is therefore the 
law of laws, the all-pervading law of continuity that 
scientists have come to believe exists ; and, being this, 
it can but be responsible for the eternal fitness of 
things, the realm in which God the Holy Trinity 
dwells and carries on all of his operations and in 
which he is immutable. And hence truth is alone 
found in fitness or in its philosophy and never in 
unfitness or in conflict with itself, any more than God 
is found in conflict with himself in the exercise of any 
of his attributes. Therefore neither the truth nor fit- 



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ness of things nor God is in this great European war ; 
but instead falsehood, with its unfitness of things, and 
the devil, its "father" or author, inaugurated this 
mighty upheaval and is directing its possibilities as 
far as he is capable of doing it, having taken Christ 
out of his way of accomplishing his purpose or recov- 
ering Adam's throne under his satanic reign as God 
in the sense and social life of the world. This being 
true, what else can Christ do other than return in per- 
son and, in the exercise of his omnipotent power, 
destroy the abnormal governments of earth and ban- 
ish the devil in his chained imprisonment in the bot- 
tomless pit, and then establish his Adamic kingdom, 
that "shall fill the whole world, and shall never be 
destroyed" ? 

And now, lest we should undervalue eating and 
drinking by the redeemed beyond the grave of Adam's 
dethronement and thereby fail to see in this vital re- 
demptive truth the literal and thereby completeness 
of human redemption, let us consider the signifi- 
cance of the truth that God, in giving to Adam the 
world for his kingly domain and physical inherit- 
ance and to which he had adapted his functions and 
faculties, stressed what he had provided therein for 
Adam to eat and did not even mention its wealth and 
the power that it would enable him to employ in de- 
veloping its possibilities and in carrying on his enter- 
prises and the pleasure that it would afford him, and 
to which his dethroned family attach chief importance. 
And let us remember the truth of greater significance 
— that is, that when the Father formally transferred 
this Adam- dethroned inheritance to Christ, its Birth- 



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right Prince-Heir, he stressed what he gave him 
to eat and said not a word about its great stores of 
weahh, but simply conferred it upon him in a general 
way, as he did upon Adam. (See Psalm viii. ; Heb. i. 
6-IO.) And then we should remember that Adam was 
dethroned by unlawful eating in the test of his loyalty 
as the king of the world in its sense and social life in 
conjunction with God the Holy Trinity's sovereign 
reign in its spiritual life, and that Christ has recovered 
Adam's throne and his world inheritance from the per- 
nicious results of Adam's unlawful eating in his de- 
thronement and thereby recovered them to their nor- 
mal conditions of existence wherein God attached 
prime importance to eating. And has not God in 
man's dethroned state put the satisfying of his ''mouth 
with good things," thereby ''renewing his youth as the 
eagles" and the healing of all his "diseases" in connec- 
tion with the forgiving of his "iniquities"? And did 
not Christ put the eating and drinking of his disciples 
at his "table in his kingdom" in connection with their 
sitting "upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes 
of Israel"? And did not Christ eat before his "terri- 
fied" disciples because of his presence in their midst, 
"the doors being shut," as the crowning evidence that 
he was identical with Christ crucified, thereby teaching 
them that he needed food as he did before his crucifix- 
ion? And then, if Christ rose out of Adam's grave of 
dethronement, that was the direct result of his unlaw- 
ful eating, and which counteracted its pernicious re- 
sults, bringing Christ into the pristine conditions of 
humanity, its Ideal Man, its "Second Adam" or Re- 
deemer King, should he not eat and drink as did the 



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first Adam, and which he did do forty days and nights 
with his disciples before he ascended ? 

Yet with all of this man cannot realize that the 
redeemed will eat and drink, and that too when other- 
wise their redemption would be incomplete. And no 
wonder, after all, that he does not entertain this in- 
dubitable evidence of the literalness of man's redemp- 
tion, when we consider that he is committed to the 
belief that Christ risen is spiritual and that his king- 
dom is also spiritual. Believing this, how is it possi- 
ble for man to understand the prophecies relative to 
Christ's coming to establish his kingdom by destroying 
all of the governments of earth to make room for it, 
which "shall fill the whole world, and never be de- 
stroyed" ? 

How could Christ under the all-pervading law of 
relation in kind, he being the Birthright Prince-Heir 
of Adam's dethroned house, bruise the serpent's head 
by counteracting his head device by which he deceived 
Adam into dethronement without enthroning himself 
in Adam's stead beyond the grave of his dethrone- 
ment in his world redeemed under God's government 
thereby recovered and reestablished on earth in its 
original order and Adam's house be "joint heirs with" 
him in its redeemed possession, he being their Elder 
Brother? Can reason divine any other result estab- 
lished in the philosophy of Christ's atonement provi- 
sion for man's redemption that was completed by 
Christ's resurrection out of the grave of Adam's de- 
thronement, which as an inevitable brought him into 
the pristine conditions of the world's Hfe where Adam's 
throne fell down in his house on "Mount Zion" in his 



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Garden Home Capital of the world and where God the 
Holy Trinity reigned sovereign in the spiritual de- 
partment of his kingdom on earth? This is why 
"Mount Zion is the city of our God, the joy of the 
whole earth." That is because it was his capital, 
where he reigned sovereign in the spiritual depart- 
ment of his government on earth conjointly with 
Adam in its sense and social departments and with 
Eve, Adam's queen, in its home department. 

And God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, the 
Divine Executor, and who has been reigning in person 
in the atonement-recovered kingdom of God since the 
day of Pentecost, will in like manner reign with 
Christ on "Mount Zion in the New Jerusalem" — Jeru- 
shalem, "the foundation of peace" — that God will pre- 
pare as he did Adam's Garden Home Capital of the 
world. And in this "new heaven and new earth [that 
"we look for" and which we must look for, according 
to the atonement philosophy of human redemption], 
wherein dwelleth righteousness," God will make of 
Abraham, the covenant man, "a great nation" out of 
the redeemed with Christ, the "Second Adam" or Re- 
deemer King, on its throne. 

"Therefore prophesy and say unto them. Thus saith 
the Lord God; Behold, O my people [Abraham and 
his Christ seed after him], I will open your graves, 
and cause you to come up out of your graves, and 
bring you into the land of Israel. . . . And shall 
put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place 
you in your own land [Adam's world redeemed be- 
yond the grave of his dethronement and that God 
promised to Abraham] : then shall ye know that I the 



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Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord." 
(Ezek. xxxvii. 12-14.) Now Abraham gets his prom- 
ised land that he died without receiving and which he 
holds in covenant security in his grave in the cave of 
Machpelah, and here the "swords" of earth will ''be 
beaten into plowshares, and the spears into pruning- 
hooks, and men shall learn war no more, and every 
man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none 
shall make him afraid" — of ejectment, for his title is 
everlasting — and not before or elsewhere. Here "the 
knowledge of God will cover the earth, as waters cover 
the great deep," and peace will reign undisturbed. 
"Even so, come. Lord Jesus. Amen." 



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OD'S original government on earth 
had three departments, two human 
and one divine, Adam reigning king 
in the sense and social life of the world 
and Eve reigning queen in its home life, 
while the Holy Trinity reigned Sovereign 
in its spiritual life. If Adam had main- 
tained his integrity forty days and nights, 
he would have been king of the world and 
Eve would have been queen in its home life 
forever. Failing, they can never recover 
this relation to God's government again, as 
that which is forfeited under law test can 
never be redeemed. But Christ, the Birth- 
right Prince of their house, maintaining his 
integrity under the tempter's power forty 
days and nights, recovered their thrones be- 
yond the grave of their dethronement in 
their world redeemed, thereby becoming 
the **Second Adam" or Redeemer King of 
dethroned humanity, which reestablished 
God's government on earth in its original 
order in atonement provision, however, and 
therefore it awaits its final establishment 
when Christ comes again. 



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